ArticleScandinavian journal of primary health care2014
Patient satisfaction with conventional, complementary, and alternative treatment for cluster headache in a Norwegian cohort.
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- Cluster headache diagnostic delay and its predictors: a systematic review with a meta-analysis.The journal of headache and pain · 2025Pooled it
- Self-Reported Efficacy of Treatments in Cluster Headache: a Systematic Review of Survey Studies.Current pain and headache reports · 2022Pooled it
- Systematic literature review on the delays in the diagnosis and misdiagnosis of cluster headache.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2019Pooled it
- Evaluation of clinical characters and use of alternative medicines in the management of headache and predictors of treatment satisfaction among Saudi adults - A community-based study in Saudi Arabia.Preventive medicine reports · 2024Article
- Therapy satisfaction and willingness-to-pay in Polish patients with restless legs syndrome.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2022Article
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- Perceptions, experiences, and understandings of cluster headache among GPs and neurologists: a qualitative study.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2020Article
- Cluster Headache: Special Considerations for Treatment of Female Patients of Reproductive Age and Pediatric Patients.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2016Review
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Abstract
objectiveCluster headache (CH) may cause excruciating pain and not all patients get satisfactory help. Patient dissatisfaction with general practitioners (GPs) and neurologists, and use of complementary and alternative treatment (CAM) may reflect this. The authors studied patient satisfaction with doctors' treatment and use of CAM in a Norwegian CH cohort. SUBJECTS: A total of 196 subjects with a cluster headache diagnosis were identified in the registers of two neurological departments in North Norway.
designOf these, 70 with a confirmed diagnosis according to the second edition of the International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD-2) completed a comprehensive questionnaire with questions concerning satisfaction with doctors' treatment, use of CAM, and effect of both treatment regimes.
resultsSatisfaction with doctors' treatment was reported in 44/70 (63%) (GPs) and 50/70 (71%) (neurologists) while 39/70 (56%) were satisfied with both. Too long a time to diagnosis, median four years, was the most commonly reported claim regarding doctors' treatment. Use of CAM was reported in 27/70 (39%), and 14/70 (20%) reported experience with ≥ 2 CAM. Ten patients reported benefit from CAM (37% of "CAM users"). The average cluster period was longer in CAM-users than others (p = 0.02), but CAM use was not associated with age, education, use of medication, effect of conventional treatment, duration of cluster attacks, or time to diagnosis.
conclusionAbout two-thirds of CH patients were satisfied with treatment from either GPs or neurologists, and about one-third had used CAM. Despite experiencing diagnostic delay and severe pain, cluster patients seem in general to be satisfied with doctors' conventional treatment.
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