Evaluation Impact of Migraine Headache among Health Care Workers in Primary Health Centers During Covid-19 in Makkah City, Saudi Arabia, 2022

Abstract

 Background

    Migraine is estimated to be the third cause of disability, according to the Global Burden Disease (GBD), in health care workers. It can be severe enough to impair quality of life and daily activities. The most accepted pathophysiological hypothesis for migraine is the trigeminovascular theory.  Covid-19 is a novel infectious agent causing coronavirus disease 2019, which has been declared as pandemic in March 2020. Personal protective equipment has been mandatory for healthcare workers in order to contain the outbreak of pandemic disease. Mild neurological disturbances such as migraine headache, common migraine triggers include long fasting, hypoglycemia.   Migraine is a common neurological disorder with significant impact on quality of life, affecting 12% Saudi population. migraines impose significant health and financial burdens, headache is a common neurological disorder, which is associated with a significant disease burden,  headache affects work, social and leisure activities and has a tremendous impact on a person’s life also the migraine is one of the most critical concerns among healthcare providers and other relevant stakeholders in the health sector.

Aim of the study: To Evaluation impact of Migraine headache among health care workers in primary health centers during Covid-19 in Makkah City, Saudi Arabia, 2022

Method : Across-sectional study among health care workers in primary health care center in Makkah 2022, the study has been conducted health care workers who works in PHC centers in Makkah city KSA. Was conducted using an online questionnaire designed during August 2022. The questionnaire collected the socio-demographic factors, a migraine screen questionnaire (MS-Q) Migraine Disability Assessment questionnaire (MIDAS), our total participants were (163).

Result: that most of the participants (40%) were in the age group(>50) years  follow by the (33.0%)were in the age (25-50) years, regarding  the Nationality  most of participants non-Saudi were were(73.0%), the majority of them males was higher compared to male(53.0% and 47.0%),  regarding  the marital status most of participants married were(50.0%), regarding level of education the majority of participant are Consultant  were(49.0%) while general practitioner were(29.0%).

Conclusion: Only one-third of Saudi migraines possess background knowledge about migraine triggers. Family history of migraine is very common among Saudi migraines' mostly experienced by people with migraine disease during Covid-19