Table 1 Demographic data and headache history among participants in this study
Overall | Lithuania | Latvia | Estonia | p value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | ||
Respondents | 2132 (100.00) | 910 (42.68) | 488 (22.89) | 734 (34.43) | - |
Age | 40.33 (13.07)a | 37.42 (11.59)a | 44.14 (14.33)a | 41.41 (13.14)a | < 0.001 |
Female | 1884 (88.37) | 800 (87.91) | 430 (88.11) | 654 (89.10) | - |
Occupation: | < 0.001 | ||||
Nurse | 738 (34.62) | 336 (36.92) | 75 (15.37) | 327 (44.55) | - |
Medical doctor | 731 (34.29) | 249 (27.36) | 279 (57.17) | 203 (27.66) | - |
Resident | 255 (11.96) | 104 (11.43) | 65 (13.32) | 86 (11.72) | - |
Nurse assistant | 104 (4.88) | 46 (5.05) | 7 (1.43) | 51 (6.95) | - |
Medical student | 67 (3.14) | 25 (2.75) | 8 (1.63) | 34 (4.63) | - |
Dentists/dentists assistants | 51 (2.39) | 49 (5.38) | 1 (0.20) | 1 (0.14) | - |
Volunteer | 47 (2.20) | 44 (4.84) | - | 3 (0.41) | - |
Paramedic | 26 (1.22) | 7 (0.77) | 10 (2.05) | 9 (1.23) | - |
Otherb | 113 (5.30) | 40 (5.49) | 43 (4.73) | 20 (2.72) | - |
Headache before PPEc use: | 1085 (50.89) | 365 (40.11) | 271 (55.53) | 449 (61.17) | < 0.001 |
Headache disorder diagnosisd | 339 (15.90) | 91 (10.00) | 87 (17.83) | 161 (21.93) | 0.003 |
Tension-type headache | 174 (8.16) | 30 (3.30) | 57 (11.68) | 87 (11.85) | < 0.001 |
Migraine without aura | 105 (4.92) | 38 (4.17) | 15 (3.07) | 52 (7.08) | 0.025 |
Migraine with aura | 98 (4.59) | 22 (2.42) | 23 (4.71) | 53 (7.22) | 0.016 |
Cluster headache | 5 (0.23) | - | 1 (0.20) | 4 (0.54) | 0.178 |
Secondary headache disorders | 20 (0.93) | 9 (0.99) | 6 (1.23) | 5 (0.68) | 0.191 |