If a parent is juggling work, household duties and the needs of other children, finding time to read Shakespeare might be impossible.
For unpaid work (household work) the substitution cost method was used.
The MIDAS questionnaire assessed the lost days of activity in three domains (work, household work, and nonwork) over the previous 3 months.
The HALT questionnaire, incorporated into our enquiry, captures headache-attributed lost time from paid work, household work and social life [28].
It contains five questions assessing the number of missed days (full or with substantial loss of productivity) at work, household chores, and leisure time.
The MIDAS may provide indications of either global disability or problems with work, household and leisure activities, which were herein described as separate PSDs.
The first 5 inquire about the number of days during which headache presence disrupted (partially or totally) paid and school work, household work, and leisure/family/social duties.
The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) gives information about hours spent on labor market work, household work, child care, repairs and other activities including hobbies.
The daily diary was used to record detailed information on headache features as well as activity limitations in work, household chores, and non-work activities (social, family and leisure activities).
Objectives: To determine how chronic pain after spinal cord injury (SCI) interfered with sleep, exercise, work, household chores, and other daily activities and to define which clinical aspects of pain and psychosocial factors best predicted the extent of interference.
Headache-attributed burden was assessed using the Migraine Disability Assessment (MIDAS) questionnaire [10], recording the numbers of lost days of school or paid work, household work and family, social or leisure activities during the previous 3 months because of headache.
