Prevalence of primary headache disorders in school-going children in Kashmir Valley (North-west India)

OBJECTIVE: A prospective prevalence study of primary headache disorders in school going children (8–18 years) in Srinagar district of Kashmir valley was conducted. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study population comprised of a randomized sample of 5000 school going children in the age group of 8–18 year...

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Autores principales: Malik, A. Hameed, Shah, Parvaiz A., Yaseen, Yawar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3444214/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23024557
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-2327.100030
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Shah, Parvaiz A.
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description OBJECTIVE: A prospective prevalence study of primary headache disorders in school going children (8–18 years) in Srinagar district of Kashmir valley was conducted. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study population comprised of a randomized sample of 5000 school going children in the age group of 8–18 years from various educational institutions of Srinagar city. A self-administered pretested questionnaire was filled by the participants and the diagnosis established by following the International Headache Society criteria (IHS) 2004. RESULTS: The overall prevalence of primary headache disorders was found to be 664/1000. The prevalence of tension-type headache and migraine was found to be 50.99% and 26.98%, respectively. The prevalence revealed an upward trend with increasing age with preponderance for female sex.
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spelling pubmed-34442142012-09-28 Prevalence of primary headache disorders in school-going children in Kashmir Valley (North-west India) Malik, A. Hameed Shah, Parvaiz A. Yaseen, Yawar Ann Indian Acad Neurol Original Article OBJECTIVE: A prospective prevalence study of primary headache disorders in school going children (8–18 years) in Srinagar district of Kashmir valley was conducted. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study population comprised of a randomized sample of 5000 school going children in the age group of 8–18 years from various educational institutions of Srinagar city. A self-administered pretested questionnaire was filled by the participants and the diagnosis established by following the International Headache Society criteria (IHS) 2004. RESULTS: The overall prevalence of primary headache disorders was found to be 664/1000. The prevalence of tension-type headache and migraine was found to be 50.99% and 26.98%, respectively. The prevalence revealed an upward trend with increasing age with preponderance for female sex. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3444214/ /pubmed/23024557 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-2327.100030 Text en Copyright: © Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Malik, A. Hameed
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Prevalence of primary headache disorders in school-going children in Kashmir Valley (North-west India)
title Prevalence of primary headache disorders in school-going children in Kashmir Valley (North-west India)
title_full Prevalence of primary headache disorders in school-going children in Kashmir Valley (North-west India)
title_fullStr Prevalence of primary headache disorders in school-going children in Kashmir Valley (North-west India)
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence of primary headache disorders in school-going children in Kashmir Valley (North-west India)
title_short Prevalence of primary headache disorders in school-going children in Kashmir Valley (North-west India)
title_sort prevalence of primary headache disorders in school-going children in kashmir valley (north-west india)
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3444214/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23024557
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-2327.100030
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