Longitudinal studies of patient′s condition,disability and quality of life in migraine patients / 重庆医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To study the longitudinal change of Migraine patient′s condition ,quality of life and disability ;analyze the evolution of the relationship between headache frequency ,pain intensity ,medication and treatment efficacy .Methods Continuous registration of migraine patients ,using WHO-DAS Ⅱ to assess the disability ,using MSQ2 .1 to assess the health-related quality of life ,using headache diary to record the patient′s condition .Results Compared the conditions of before and after treatment ,the aver-age level of pain ,acute drug using and headache frequency ,were significantly improved .The three dimensions′scores of MSQ2 .1 were decreased .Conclusion In this study ,significant improvement were found in some of the disability and health-related quality of life .Continuity of treatment has an important role to improve health-related quality of life of patients and reduce disability .