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. 2023 Apr 28:11:20503121231170726.
doi: 10.1177/20503121231170726. eCollection 2023.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patients with migraine

Olena Hrytsenko  1 , Oksana Kopchak  1 , Marko Kozyk  2 , Kateryna Strubchevska  2
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patients with migraine

Olena Hrytsenko et al. SAGE Open Med. .

Abstract

Objectives: The aim of our work was to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine measures on migraine patients in regards to the activity of the disease, the psycho-emotional background of the patients and their quality of life.

Methods: his study included 133 patients with established diagnosis of migraine. All study participants were divided into two clinical groups: A-patients with chronic and episodic forms of migraine, who had a history of positive PCR test for COVID-19, and B-patients with chronic and episodic forms of migraine who did not have a history of coronavirus disease.

Results: We detected increase in the number of antimigraine medication (p = 0.04), frequency of headache attacks (p = 0.01), and the psycho-emotional state deterioration (increase in the Hamilton anxiety scale score) (p = 0.002) in patients after recovery from the coronavirus disease. There was no significant difference in the headache's intensity according to the VAS scale (p = 0.51) as well as in the dynamics of the Beck depression scale score (p = 0.09) before and after the COVID-19 infection.

Conclusion: Patients with a history of migraine who recovered from COVID-19 showed increased frequency of migraine headache attacks and anxiety.

Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; Migraine; psycho-emotional state.

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Conflict of interest statement

The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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