Association of Work Productivity and Quality of Life with Migraine related Disability among Physiotherapists

Abstract

Migraine is a recurrent, severe, and throbbing headache affecting one side of the head. It is usually associated with nausea, vomiting, photophobia, or phonophobia. The aim of the study was to find out the association of work productivity and quality of life with migraine related disability among physiotherapists. This was a Cross-sectional observational study. A sample size of 377 participants was used in this study through non-probability convenient sampling and the data was collected from multiple institutions of Lahore, Pakistan. The study was carried out for 6 months. The participants between ages 25 and 45 years, both males and females, from both government and private sector, working for minimum 5 hrs/day, with positive Migraine Screening Questionnaire (MSQ) and participants should have a migraine attack in past 7 days. Those participants, with any stress or psychological disorder, any serious ongoing pathology and pregnant females were excluded. The results of this study showed that migraine association with quality of life and work productivity is significant with p=0.000 when the means were compared which means there is significant association between work productivity and quality of with migraine related disability among physiotherapists. According to this study, the participants had severe migraine disability, due to which the work productivity and the quality of life of the participants decreased.