Labor productivity in migraine patients: primary care contribution to occupational medicine.

Abstract

To estimate the impact of migraine on labor productivity and health resources utilization in an active population attending Primary Care settings in Spain. An observational, cross-sectional, and multicenter study was designed. Productivity, loss workdays equivalents and previous 3-months health resources utilization were calculated. Four thousand four hundred twenty six patients were evaluated. The migraine group showed the lowest productivity, highest loss workdays equivalents and health resources utilization compared with non-migraine headaches and subjects without headaches (P < 0.05 in all cases). Within the migraine group, lower productivity values were observed in female patients compared to male (64.04 vs 59.69; P < 0.05), while emergency room visits were more frequent for male patients (0.71 vs 076; P < 0.05). Subjects with migraine showed higher impact on health resources utilization and productivity when evaluated at Primary care level.