Table 1.
Socio-demographic predictors of frequent or severe headaches in the 12 months before interview among employed or self-employed Part II NCS-R respondents
| Prevalence1 | Comparisons to respondents without frequent or severe headaches3 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Migraines | Other headaches | Migraines | Other headaches | |||||||
| (n)2 | % | (se) | % | (se) | OR | (95% CI) | OR | (95% CI) | ||
| Total | (3955) | 5.5 | (0.4) | 7.5 | (0.5) | |||||
| Gender | ||||||||||
| Female | (2139) | 8.9 | (0.6) | 10.3 | (0.9) | 4.0* | (2.9,5.5) | 2.2* | (1.7,2.9) | |
| Male | (1816) | 2.4 | (0.4) | 4.9 | (0.5) | 1.0 | (--) | 1.0 | (--) | |
| χ 2 1 | 76.5* | 34.1* | ||||||||
| Age | ||||||||||
| 18-29 | (1106) | 5.7 | (0.7) | 8.9 | (1.1) | 4.9* | (1.1,22.6) | 3.1* | (1.2,7.7) | |
| 30-44 | (1537) | 7.0 | (0.8) | 8.3 | (0.9) | 6.1* | (1.2,29.8) | 2.8* | (1.1,7.0) | |
| 45-59 | (1186) | 4.1 | (0.6) | 5.7 | (0.7) | 3.5 | (0.8,15.2) | 1.9 | (0.7,5.1) | |
| 60+ | (126) | 1.2 | (0.9) | 3.1 | (1.4) | 1.0 | (--) | 1.0 | (--) | |
| χ 2 3 | 10.5* | 18.9* | ||||||||
| Education | ||||||||||
| Less than high school | (411) | 6.1 | (0.9) | 11.0 | (2.3) | 1.5 | (0.9,2.3) | 1.9 | (1.0,3.5) | |
| High school graduate | (1148) | 6.0 | (0.6) | 7.0 | (1.2) | 1.4 | (1.0,2.0) | 1.1 | (0.7,1.9) | |
| Some college | (1276) | 5.9 | (0.5) | 7.9 | (0.9) | 1.4 | (1.0,2.0) | 1.3 | (0.8,2.1) | |
| College graduate | (1120) | 4.2 | (0.7) | 6.1 | (1.1) | 1.0 | (--) | 1.0 | (--) | |
| χ 2 3 | 5.6 | 4.4 | ||||||||
| Race/ethnicity | ||||||||||
| Non-Hispanic White | (2859) | 6.1 | (0.4) | 7.2 | (0.5) | 1.0 | (--) | 1.0 | (--) | |
| Non-Hispanic Black | (501) | 2.2 | (0.6) | 9.5 | (1.9) | 0.3* | (0.2,0.7) | 1.3 | (0.9,2.1) | |
| Hispanic | (397) | 5.4 | (1.3) | 6.9 | (1.4) | 0.9 | (0.5,1.5) | 0.9 | (0.6,1.5) | |
| Other | (198) | 6.2 | (2.1) | 7.4 | (2.2) | 1.0 | (0.5,2.1) | 1.0 | (0.6,1.9) | |
| χ 2 3 | 11.6* | 1.8 | ||||||||
| Occupation | ||||||||||
| Executive/professional | (1056) | 5.4 | (0.7) | 7.2 | (1.3) | 1.0 | (--) | 1.0 | (--) | |
| Sales/clerical support | (937) | 7.7 | (1.0) | 9.0 | (0.9) | 1.4* | (1.0,2.1) | 1.3 | (0.8,2.0) | |
| Technical/precision crafts | (938) | 5.9 | (0.7) | 6.0 | (0.9) | 1.1 | (0.8,1.6) | 0.8 | (0.5,1.3) | |
| Service/general labor | (1024) | 3.6 | (0.6) | 7.7 | (0.9) | 0.7 | (0.4,1.0) | 1.1 | (0.7,1.8) | |
| χ 2 3 | 15.5* | 4.6 | ||||||||
*
Significant at the .05 level, two-sided test
1
The headache questions were asked in a way such that respondents could be classified as having migraines or other headaches but not both.
2
Unweighted number of respondents in he subsample (e.g., there are a total of 2139 employed or self-employer women in the sample, of whom 8.9% had frequent or severe migraines, another 10.3% had other frequent or severe headaches, and the remaining 80.8% did not have frequent or severe headaches).
3
Based on a multivariate logistic regression equation that included all socio-demographic variables as predictors