Table 3 Patients' profile for socio-demographic and medical history data; split for hospital and diagnostic subgroup (TTH = tension-type headache; m = arithmetic mean, sd = standard deviation); - not significant, * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01
Providing hospital | Diagnostic headache subgroup | Significance testing | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hosp. A | Hosp. B | Hosp. C | Migraine alone | TTH or combined with migr. | Total | Between | Between | Hosp.X | ||
N = | 99 | 109 | 98 | 167 | 139 | 306 | Hosp. | Subgr | Subgr | |
Age | Years; m (sd) | 51.8 (9.6) | 46.3 (11.1) | 47.3 (12.0) | 48.6 (10.6) | 48.2 (11.8) | 48.4 (11.1) | ** | - | - |
Gender | Female % | 88.9 | 90.8 | 85.7 | 90.4 | 86.3 | 88.6 | - | - | - |
Education | >12 school years % | 24.2 | 34.9 | 18.4 | 25.1 | 27.3 | 26.1 | * | - | - |
Occupational status | Employed % | 63.6 | 67.9 | 65.3 | 66.5 | 64.7 | 65.7 | - | - | - |
Headache since | Up to 5 yrs % | 3.0 | 5.6 | 3.1 | 3.0 | 5.1 | 3.9 | |||
6 to 10 yrs % | 13.1 | 10.2 | 14.3 | 10.8 | 14.5 | 12.5 | ||||
- | - | - | ||||||||
11 to 20 yrs % | 17.2 | 22.2 | 22.4 | 22.8 | 18.1 | 20.7 | ||||
> 20 yrs % | 66.7 | 62.0 | 60.2 | 63.5 | 62.3 | 63.0 | ||||
Prophylactic treatment | Drug treatment % | 34.1 | 38.5 | 26.6 | 33.5 | 32.8 | 33.2 | - | - | - |
Non-drug % | 73.9 | 67.0 | 70.8 | 73.2 | 66.9 | 70.4 | - | - | - | |
Acute headache | Drug treatment % | 97.8 | 99.1 | 89.2 | 96.8 | 94.0 | 95.5 | ** | - | - |
Non-drug % | 47.2 | 49.5 | 51.2 | 44.4 | 54.8 | 49.3 | - | - | - | |
Previous treatment | with CAM§methods % | 59.1 | 79.0 | 83.2 | 77.6 | 69.7 | 74.2 | ** | - | * |
General health status | m (sd) | 2.50 (0.88) | 2.61 (0.95) | 2.48 (1.13) | 2.64 (1.01) | 2.40 (0.94) | 2.53 (0.99) | - | * | * |
Internal Health locus of control | m (sd) | 1.87 (0.84) | 1.83 (0.93) | 1.48 (0.98) | 1.70 (0.85) | 1.76 (1.02) | 1.73 (0.93) | ** | - | * |
Trust in successful treatment | m (sd) | 3.01 (0.76) | 3.31 (0.77) | 3.44 (0.61) | 3.32 (0.69) | 3.18 (0.78) | 3.26 (0.74) | ** | - | - |