Prevalence and clinical characteristics of headache among medical students of Nepal: A cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Headache is a common neurological disorder, with a global prevalence of around 50%. It may affect people of any age, gender, education, socioeconomic status and occupation. Tension headache, migraine headache and cluster headache are commonly encountered headache types. The prevalence of headache problems is higher among medical students. This could potentially affect their academic performance and quality of life. The objective of this study is to find out the prevalence of headaches and their clinical characteristics among students of a medical college.

Materials and methods

An online, single-centre, cross-sectional study was conducted among undergraduate medical students in Nepal. Stratified sampling followed by a simple random sampling technique was adopted de

SUBMITTER: Bhattarai AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9674122 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature