The International Burden of Migraine Study (IBMS): Study design, methodology, and baseline cohort characteristics

Krista A. Payne; Sepideh F. Varon; Ariane K. Kawata; Karen Yeomans; Teresa K. Wilcox; Aubrey Manack; Dawn C. Buse; Richard B. Lipton; Peter J. Goadsby; Andrew M. Blumenfeld

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The International Burden of Migraine Study (IBMS): Study design, methodology, and baseline cohort characteristics

Krista A. Payne, Sepideh F. Varon, Ariane K. Kawata, Karen Yeomans, Teresa K. Wilcox, Aubrey Manack, Dawn C. Buse, Richard B. Lipton, Peter J. Goadsby, Andrew M. Blumenfeld

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Objective: To describe a survey methodology to evaluate headache characteristics and burden and to present baseline characteristics for the international cohort of survey participants.Methods: A targeted, web-based methodology was used to recruit and survey subjects with migraine in 10 countries. Based on reported symptoms, subjects meeting ICHD-2 criteria for migraine were included; eligible subjects were classified as chronic (≥15 headache days per month) or episodic (< 15 headache days per month). Outcomes included sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, resource utilization, disability, health-related quality of life, anxiety, depression and productivity.Results: Of 23,312 survey respondents, 11,897 were eligible and 9715 (81.7%) completed the survey; subjects were 81.5% female; 5.7% (n = 555) had chronic migraine.Conclusions: This is the first large international cohort of persons with chronic and episodic migraine studied using a web-based approach, a methodology well suited to the study of the burden of migraines.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1116-1130
Number of pages	15
Journal	Cephalalgia
Volume	31
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0333102411410610
State	Published - Jul 2011

Keywords

HRQoL
Migraine
disability
resource utilization
web-based survey

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Clinical Neurology

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