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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Feb 8.
Published in final edited form as: Cephalalgia. 2023 Jul;43(7):3331024231187162. doi: 10.1177/03331024231187162

Table 1.

Respondent demographics and headache characteristics. ICHD3 diagnosis is based on an algorithm applied to patient responses.

All (n = 6662) Migraine (44.3%) Prob Mig (22.4%) TTH (5.1%) TAC (1.2%) Other (0.4%) PTH (11.1%) NDPH (10.3%) Undefined (4.8%)
Age (yr) [IQR] 13.6 [10.5, 15.8] 13.6 [10.7, 15.8] 12.8 [9.8, 15.3] 10.9 [8.3, 14.1] 15.1 [12.1, 16.2] 14.0 [9.4, 16.3] 15.0 [12.6, 16.6] 14.5 [12.1, 16.2] 12.0 [8.8, 14.8]
% Female* 64.3 66.0 59.1 61.9 75.6 55.2 64.5 71.8 56.1
Race (%)
 White 68.0 71.1 64.5 67.7 65.9 86.2 71.6 64.7 54.5
 Black 13.7 11.8 16.4 12.0 18.3 0.0 12.8 14.7 19.6
 Asian 2.8 2.0 3.3 5.9 2.4 3.4 2.2 3.5 4.1
 AI <0.1 0.1 <0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 <0.1
 PI <0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 <0.1 0.0
 Unknown 13.8 13.7 13.8 13.2 12.2 10.3 11.5 14.7 20.3
 No answer 1.3 0.9 1.7 0.6 0.0 0.0 1.8 1.9 0.9
 Missing 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.6 1.2 0.1 0.1 0.5 0.6
Ethnicity (%)
 Hispanic 7.8 7.6 7.4 7.0 8.5 3.4 7.5 8.1 11.2
 Not Hisp. 90.3 90.9 90.7 90.0 90.2 93.1 89.7 89.2 86.9
 Unknown <0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
 No answer 1.6 1.1 1.7 2.3 0.0 3.4 2.5 2.0 1.6
 Missing 0.3 0.4 0.2 0.7 1.3 0.1 0.3 0.7 0.3
HA pattern (%)
 Intermittent 67.3 73.7 79.9 89.1 41.5 96.6 59.6 0.0 92.5
 Continuous 32.8 26.3 20.1 10.9 58.5 3.4 40.2 100.0 7.5
 Missing <0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0
Usual HA severity (%)
 Mild 8.7 2.8 8.1 40.5 0.0 6.9 9.3 8.3 32.7
 Moderate 57.3 54.8 64.7 53.1 51.2 62.1 56.3 61.5 44.5
 Severe 34.0 42.4 27.1 6.5 48.8 31.0 34.3 30.2 22.7
PedMIDAS (%)
 None 35.3 28.1 45.1 66.0 17.1 86.2 25.3 25.4 68.9
 Mild 32.1 36.7 31.7 22.3 30.5 3.4 26.6 30.5 22.7
 Moderate 13.0 15.0 10.1 6.2 12.2 6.9 16.1 15.1 3.7
 Severe 19.6 20.3 13.1 5.6 40.2 3.4 32.0 28.9 4.7
Bad HA freq (%)
 Never 2.0 0.4 1.8 5.9 0.0 6.9 1.1 2.9 14.3
 < 1 month 12.5 11.8 16.0 17.3 1.2 6.9 8.0 6.3 24.9
 1–3 month 25.3 30.2 25.3 28.5 17.1 6.9 19.6 14.2 18.4
 1/week 14.3 16.9 14.2 13.2 8.5 17.2 13.3 7.4 10.0
 2–3/week 17.4 17.4 16.6 15.3 22.0 17.2 22.2 19.0 8.4
 > 3/week 9.1 8.4 8.7 6.7 22.0 20.7 11.2 12.2 3.4
 Daily 11.0 8.5 9.5 6.2 22.0 20.7 15.5 23.1 5.9
 Always 3.5 2.1 2.5 1.2 7.3 0.0 6.2 9.7 1.9
 Other 3.4 2.6 3.6 4.7 0.0 3.5 2.0 4.8 8.4
 Missing 1.5 1.7 1.8 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.9 0.4 4.4

Prob Mig=Probable migraine, AI=American Indian, PI=Pacific Islander, Not Hisp=Not Hispanic, HA=Headache, IQR=interquartile range, TAC=trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia, PTH=post-traumatic headache, NDPH=new daily persistent headache, Other=other primary headache disorders, occipital neuralgia and primary stabbing headache, undefined=those who did not meet classification criteria for any of the other headache diagnoses, PedMIDAS=PedMIDAS disability grade.

*

Indicates legal sex. Other primary HA disorder includes occipital neuralgia and primary stabbing headache.