Trial reportThe journal of headache and pain2015
The prevalence of primary headache disorders and their associated factors among nursing staff in North China.
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- Migraine as an occupational health risk among nurses in Qassim region, Saudi Arabia: a multicenter study of risk perceptions and associated factors.Frontiers in public health · 2026Observational
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- Headache and Associated Psychological Variables in Intensive Care Unit Nurses during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Prospective Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
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- The Association Between Shift Work and Migraine Attacks Among Healthcare Workers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.Cureus · 2024Article
- The role of purity and frequency in the classification of perimenstrual headache.BMC neurology · 2023Article
- Headache Education by E-Learning Through Social Networking Services (Social Media).Journal of healthcare leadership · 2023Article
- Prevalence of depression and its correlation with anxiety, headache and sleep disorders among medical staff in the Hainan Province of China.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Applying a biopsychosocial model to migraine: rationale and clinical implications.The journal of headache and pain · 2022Review
- Incidence of headache after COVID-19 vaccination in patients with history of headache: A cross-sectional study.Cephalalgia : an international journal of headache · 2022Article
- Correlation Analysis of Vestibular Symptoms and Migraine and Non-migraine Headaches: An Epidemiological Survey of 708 Female Nurses.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Blood Biomarkers for Assessing Headaches in Healthcare Workers after Wearing Biological Personal Protective Equipment in a COVID-19 Field Hospital.Journal of personalized medicine · 2021Article
- Migraine in Nursing Students-A Study from a Tertiary Care Center in South India.Journal of neurosciences in rural practice · 2021Article
- The longitudinal association between shift work and headache: results from the Danish PRISME cohort.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2020Article
- Heroin-induced headache in female heroin addicts.The Journal of international medical research · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundEpidemiological data on the prevalence of headache in nursing staff in Mainland China are lacking. We therefore performed a study to assess the prevalence of headache, and factors associated with headaches, in nursing staff in three hospitals in North China.
methodsStratified random cluster sampling was used to select 1102 nurses from various departments in three hospitals. A structured questionnaire was used to collect epidemiological data, headache characteristics and associated factors.
resultsThe response rate was 93.0%. Among nursing staff, the 1-year prevalence of primary headache disorders was 45.3%, of migraine 14.8% (migraine with aura 3.4%, migraine without aura 11.4%), of tension-type headache (TTH) 26.2%, of chronic daily headache (CDH) 2.7%. Multivariate analysis showed that seniority (≥5 years) was a risk factor for migraine (OR 2.280), obesity (BMI ≥ 25) was a risk factor for TTH and CDH (OR 1.684 and 3.184), and age (≥40 years) was a risk factor for CDH (OR 8.455). Nurses working in internal medicine were more likely to suffer CDH than those in other departments. Working a greater number of night shifts was also associated with increased prevalence of headache.
conclusionThe prevalence of primary headache disorders in nurses is higher than that in the general population in China, and occupational factors may play an important role. Therefore, the prevalence of headache in nurses should be a focus of attention, and coping strategies should be provided. Such measures could contribute to improving patient care.
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