Volume 27, Issue 136, June 2023

Prevalence and impact of medication overuse headache on quality of life among health college’s students in Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia

Amal H Mohamed^1♦, Abuobaida Yassin¹, Hussain Khalid Shaykhayn², Hadeel Mohammed Y Albeishy², Ruwaym Jaber Mohammed Alharbi², Hana Mohammad Ali Homadi², Azhar Mohammed Qasem Moafa², Atheer Ibrahim Darraj²

¹Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia
²Medical Students, Faculty of Medicine, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia

^♦Corresponding author
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

Background: Headache is one of the major health problems worldwide that impacted the quality of life. The aim of this study is to identify the prevalence and impact of medication overuse headache on quality of life among Jazan university health colleges’ students. Method of the study: A cross-sectional study was conducted to collect data from 420 students at health colleges’ in Jazan University. The study used a semi-structured questionnaire to attain the objective of the study. T-test and Chi Square were used for analysis. Results: A total of 614 students were enrolled in the study with mean age of 23.06  3.92 years, most of them were female (63.5 %). Among the students, 57.1% of the participants reported having tension headache, while 30.5% had migraine type and 7.8% had cluster headache. The study reported that that 64.3% of the students used at least one pill daily to treat headache. The most common used medication was paracetamol (78.2%) this trend commonly seen among females (70.3%) (P=0.00001). There is a significant relation between medication overuse headache and satisfaction with overall quality of life (P=0.002, 0.003) and no significant relation with satisfaction to personal relationships and social life or with academic achievement (P=0.073, 0.627). Conclusion: The current study showed high prevalence of using analgesics for treatment of headache among health colleges’ students especially females’ students. Satisfaction with overall health and own energy was negatively impacted.

Keywords: Medication, analgesic, overuses headache, health colleges’ students, prevalence, quality of life

Medical Science, 2023, 27, e243ms3053

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v27i136/e243ms3053

Published: 02 June 2023