Headaches and family planning: insights from a Japanese school-based survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the effect of headaches on women's pregnancy plans and fertility intentions.

Methods

We prospectively performed a school-based online survey for students' parents in Suwa city, Japan, in 2023. We asked their age, sex, the number of children, the presence of headache attacks, the use of acute and prophylactic medications, monthly headache days (MHD), monthly acute medication intake days (AMD), headache impact test-6 (HIT-6), and whether or not headaches worsen during menstruation. We also examined headache's effect on pregnancy plans and asked about how headaches would affect pregnancy, the ability to raise a child, and the child's health.Of 5558 students' households, we retrieved 1142 (20.1%) answers, and 717 (12.9%) responses from parents with heada

SUBMITTER: Katsuki M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12265367 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature