A Survey of Neurologists on the Likeability of Headaches and Other Neurological Disorders

作者：Evans Randolph W^*; Evans Rochelle E

来源：Headache, 2010, 50(7): 1126-1129.

DOI：10.1111/j.1526-4610.2010.01708.x

• neurologists
• likeability
• headaches
• migraine
• physician-patient relationship

Background.-
A pilot survey of 94 neurologists attending a continuing medical education meeting was performed to assess whether neurologists like to treat headaches and other common disorders and evaluate their personal prevalence of the disorders.
Methods.-
Physicians were asked to respond to the following statement using a 5-point Likert scale (from 1, strongly disagree to 5, strongly agree): "I like to treat patients with this disease or symptom."
Results.-
The response rate was 46% with a mean age of 52.5 years. The respondents liked to treat migraine (mean = 4.32) similarly to carpal tunnel syndrome and Parkinson's disease. Cluster headaches (mean = 3.90) are less liked than migraine similar to epilepsy and multiple sclerosis and respondents are neutral to treating chronic daily headaches (mean = 3.02) similarly to insomnia and low back pain. The lifetime prevalence of migraine among respondents is 48% with those with and without migraine comparably liking to treat migraineurs.
Conclusions.-
Neurologists like to treat migraine more than cluster headaches and are neutral in treating chronic daily headaches.

• 出版日期2010-8