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These are somewhat higher than the 3.0% disability estimate, and considerable.
It is of interest to compare this reported lost productivity from migraine (1.5%%) with the disability estimate for the population attributable to those with migraine.
What is at first surprising is that losses from people with pMOH were only 7.4% from workdays and 5.0% from household workdays – higher than for migraine but not greatly so, whereas the disability estimate was two-fold higher.
In Zambia, with a somewhat lower migraine prevalence of 22.9%% but higher attack frequency (41 days/year) and considerably longer reported mean duration (36 h), the same comparison found the disability estimate (0.98%%) to be similarly smaller than the reported total lost productivity (recalculated using 240 days as the denominator as 3.2%%) [24].
The aim of the study was to: Establish the prevalence rate of disability Estimate the prevalence rate of self-reported traumatic exposure of participants Investigate the gender differences in the association between exposure to traumatic events and disability, controlling for socio-demographic factors.
As the gestational age of the ORACLE population of children is between these extremes a conservative disability estimate of 5% has been taken as the principal estimate and sensitivity to variation of this value of the power of the study to detect differences is explored in the table.
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The finding that lost productivity exceeds disability estimated from time spent with headache is usual, and suggests that the disabling effect of migraine in fact outlasts headache.
It updates global disability estimates for the first time in 40 years and finds that 20% of the world's poorest people have disabilities and nearly 80% of people with disabilities live in low-income countries.
As might be expected, people with pMOH carry much more individual disability – estimated at 8.3%.
As mentioned in the introduction of this article, most of this literature focuses on Anglo-Saxon countries (mainly the United Kingdom) and, because of the different strategies, disability definitions and variables and econometric specifications used to estimate the cost of disability, estimates vary widely across works and countries.
TTH, despite being the second most prevalent disorder in the world (behind dental caries) [7], adds much less to population disability estimates because a low disability weight of 0.036 (on a scale of 0 1) is accorded to the headache of TTH compared with 0.434 for the ictal state of migraine [17].
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