Volume 26, Issue 119, January 2022

Prevalence of migraine and its effect on the quality of life among the Saudi general population

Ahmed Basardah¹, Jawaher Mohammed Hassan Al-Ruwaili², Rahaf Abdullah Mohammed Almutiq³, Hanan Olaywi Ruddah Alkaabi⁴, Ammar Abdullah Ali Basardah⁵, Abdulaziz Mohammed Saeed Abdulwasea⁶, Rawan Abdullah Ahmed Alqahtani³, Ebtehaj Sultan Mohammed Alshareif³, Basim Ayed Aljohani⁷, Abdalla Mohamed Bakr Ali⁸

¹Consultant of Critical Care & Internal Medicine, King Fahad Medical City, Saudi Arabia
²General practitioner, AlUfuq Primary Healthcare Center, Ministry of Health, Buraydah, Saudi Arabia
³Medical Intern, College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia
⁴MBBS, College of Medicine, Umm Al Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia
⁵General practitioner, Care National Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
⁶General Practitioner, Sumuo Medical Complex, Khobar, Saudi Arabia
⁷MBBS, College of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, KSA
⁸Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Egypt

ABSTRACT

Background: Migraine is a common episodic neurological condition with complicated pathophysiology that manifests itself as repeating bouts of throbbing and unilateral, frequently severe headaches, nausea, phonophobia, and photophobia. Objectives: To determine the prevalence of migraines in Saudi Arabia’s general population and their impact on quality of life. Methods: This was cross-sectional research based on a broad group of male and female migraine sufferers in Saudi Arabia who were over 18. The research was carried out between June and August of 2021. Results: The majority of the participants in this cross-sectional research, 173 (40%), were between 26 and 35. Females (65%) outnumbered males by a margin of (35%). The majority of the participants were jobless Saudis with no prior history of chronic illnesses (191 (44.2%), 376 (87%), and 351 (81.3%), respectively. Age (p-value = 0.046) and gender (p-value = 0.001) were also shown to be substantially linked with migraine attacks. While the MSQ score was associated with living in a city, being single, being a university student, and not having any past chronic conditions (p-value = 0.001, 0.001, 0.046, and 0.001), respectively. Conclusions: According to the current study, the total prevalence of migraines in Saudi Arabia’s general population was 39.58%. The participants in this study had a significant prevalence of migraines since they were middle-aged females living in southern or metropolitan locations. The most prevalent migraine symptoms were nausea and being bothered by light or loud sounds during a headache attack.

Keywords: Prevalence, Migraine, Quality of Life, Saudi Arabia

Medical Science, 2022, 26, ms23e1928

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v26i119/ms23e1928

Published: 13 January 2022