Not only do headache disorders affect very large numbers of people through their high prevalence [1,2], imposing symptom burdens of pain, suffering and impaired quality of life, but through this disability burden they cause productivity losses that carry a very substantial financial penalty [4].
Headache disorders, especially migraine, impose symptom burden and disability.
Comparison of the three symptom complexes showed that respiratory symptoms imposed the highest burden in terms of symptom frequency, absolute numbers of doctor visits, and absolute number of days taken off work.
To understand people's help-seeking decision making for cancer alarm symptoms, without imposing a cancer context.
The aim of this study was to describe the epidemiology and rate these three major symptom complexes in order to improve our understanding of the health burden imposed by these symptoms.
The aim of this study is to describe the epidemiology and rate of disease symptoms related to gastrointestinal, respiratory and dermal systems among 277 Australian families and to compare the health care seeking pattern for these three major symptom complexes in order to improve our understanding of the health burden imposed by these symptoms.
To explore the perceptions of patients with fibromyalgia (FM) on the problems they experience in the workplace, to discuss how they face and adapt to the limitations imposed by the symptoms of this disease.
However, the disease-associated symptoms imposed a challenging situation for early cancer diagnosis.
This emphasis on aspects of the individual symptoms imposed by the classic approach has not encouraged the development of intervention programmes with positive long and medium-term results on individuals and organizations overall [ 7- 9].
From these questions, three dimensions can be inferred: perceived difficulties (is there a problem), impact score (distress and social incapacity on the child), and a burden rating (do symptoms impose a burden) (Goodman 1999).
