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The impacts of masks and disinfectants on migraine patients in the COVID-19 pandemic

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) and disinfectants has become necessary to prevent transmission of the virus. However, the effects of such pandemic obligations on chronic diseases such as migraine have not been fully elucidated. We aimed to inv...

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Autores principales: Yuksel, Hatice, Kenar, Safiye Gul, Gursoy, Gorkem Tutal, Bektas, Hesna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8755428/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35066364
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jocn.2022.01.006
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author Yuksel, Hatice
Kenar, Safiye Gul
Gursoy, Gorkem Tutal
Bektas, Hesna
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description Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) and disinfectants has become necessary to prevent transmission of the virus. However, the effects of such pandemic obligations on chronic diseases such as migraine have not been fully elucidated. We aimed to investigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the use of masks and disinfectants, on migraine patients. A total of 310 migraine patients were included. Demographic data, migraine characteristics, and mask and disinfectant use were obtained through a face-to-face survey. Patients were grouped as worsening, stable, or improving according to pre-pandemic and pandemic migraine characteristics. Migraine worsening was found in 177 (57.1%) patients, stable course in 96 (31%) patients, and improvement in 37 (11.9%) patients. The use of scalp contact masks and double masks and daily mask duration were higher in the worsening group (p:0.005, p:0.005 and p:0.001). In addition, the frequency of personal disinfectant use was higher in this group (p:0.011). In regression analysis, mask type, daily mask duration, presence of allodynia, being a health worker, depression score, and odor were determined as independent risk factors for migraine worsening. We found a worsening of migraines in more than half of patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. We also demonstrated a relationship between migraine worsening and mask type, number of masks, and intensive disinfectant use. Migraine patients should be advised of optimal prevention methods based on individual social and working conditions rather than exaggerated preventative measures.
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spelling pubmed-87554282022-01-13 The impacts of masks and disinfectants on migraine patients in the COVID-19 pandemic Yuksel, Hatice Kenar, Safiye Gul Gursoy, Gorkem Tutal Bektas, Hesna J Clin Neurosci Clinical Study Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) and disinfectants has become necessary to prevent transmission of the virus. However, the effects of such pandemic obligations on chronic diseases such as migraine have not been fully elucidated. We aimed to investigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the use of masks and disinfectants, on migraine patients. A total of 310 migraine patients were included. Demographic data, migraine characteristics, and mask and disinfectant use were obtained through a face-to-face survey. Patients were grouped as worsening, stable, or improving according to pre-pandemic and pandemic migraine characteristics. Migraine worsening was found in 177 (57.1%) patients, stable course in 96 (31%) patients, and improvement in 37 (11.9%) patients. The use of scalp contact masks and double masks and daily mask duration were higher in the worsening group (p:0.005, p:0.005 and p:0.001). In addition, the frequency of personal disinfectant use was higher in this group (p:0.011). In regression analysis, mask type, daily mask duration, presence of allodynia, being a health worker, depression score, and odor were determined as independent risk factors for migraine worsening. We found a worsening of migraines in more than half of patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. We also demonstrated a relationship between migraine worsening and mask type, number of masks, and intensive disinfectant use. Migraine patients should be advised of optimal prevention methods based on individual social and working conditions rather than exaggerated preventative measures. Elsevier Ltd. 2022-03 2022-01-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8755428/ /pubmed/35066364 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jocn.2022.01.006 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Gursoy, Gorkem Tutal
Bektas, Hesna
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title The impacts of masks and disinfectants on migraine patients in the COVID-19 pandemic
title_full The impacts of masks and disinfectants on migraine patients in the COVID-19 pandemic
title_fullStr The impacts of masks and disinfectants on migraine patients in the COVID-19 pandemic
title_full_unstemmed The impacts of masks and disinfectants on migraine patients in the COVID-19 pandemic
title_short The impacts of masks and disinfectants on migraine patients in the COVID-19 pandemic
title_sort impacts of masks and disinfectants on migraine patients in the covid-19 pandemic
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8755428/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35066364
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jocn.2022.01.006
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