Barriers to healthcare access in patients with chronic pain or potential migraine in Japan: a cross-sectional internet survey.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Chronic pain and migraines often go untreated despite patient- and economic-related burdens (e.g., impaired quality of life and productivity). Understanding the reasons for non-treatment is important to enable interventions aimed at improving care-seeking behaviors. However, reports on disease-specific justifications for nontreatment in Japan are limited. We aimed to determine the barriers to healthcare access in untreated patients with chronic pain or migraines.

Patients and methods

This was a non-interventional, cross-sectional, internet questionnaire survey of patients with chronic pain or migraines. The primary endpoint was to identify the reasons for untreated chronic pain or migraines. Secondary endpoints included factors associated with healthcare access, incl

SUBMITTER: Karasawa Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10579894 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature