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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Headache. 2012 Oct 23;53(2):310–321. doi: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2012.02259.x

Table 4.

Odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for migraine in relation to symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress assessed using the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS-21)

Migraine
Psychiatric Symptoms No (N=1,939) n (%) Yes(N=212) n (%) Unadjusted OR (95%CI) *Adjusted OR (95% CI)
Depression
Normal (0-9) 1,823 (94.0) 191 (89.6) 1.00 (Reference) 1.00 (Reference)
Mild (10-13) 55 (2.8) 8 (3.8) 1.38 (0.65,2.95) 1.31 (0.59,2.74)
Moderate (14-20) 35 (1.8) 10 (4.7) 2.45 (1.16,5.19) 2.29 (1.03,5.11)
Severe (≥21) 12 (0.6) 3 (1.4) 2.38 (0.67,8.53) 2.41 (0.65,8.90)
Missing 14 (0.7) 1 (0.4)
P-value for trend 0.007 0.012
Anxiety
Normal (0-7) 1,782 (91.9) 179 (83.4) 1.00 (Reference) 1.00 (Reference)
Mild (8-9) 62 (3.2) 14 (6.6) 2.24 (1.23,4.09) 2.28 (1.24,4.21)
Moderate (10-14) 67 (3.4) 12 (5.6) 1.78 (0.96,3.35) 1.77 (0.93,3.35)
Severe (≥15) 15 (0.8) 8 (3.8) 5.31 (2.22,12.69) 5.39 (2.19,13.24)
Missing 13 (0.6) 1 (0.4)
P-value for trend <0.001 <0.001
Stress
Normal (0-14)) 1,797 (94.4) 196 (92.5) 1.00 (Reference) 1.00 (Reference)
Mild (15-18) 61 (3.2) 4 (1.9) 0.60 (0.22,1.67) 0.39 (0.12,1.29)
Moderate (19-25) 31 (1.6) 6 (2.8) 1.77 (0.73,4.31) 1.58 (0.64,3.90)
Severe (≥26) 15 (0.8) 6 (2.8) 3.67 (1.41,9.56) 3.57 (1.35,9.46)
Missing 35 (1.8) 0 (0.0)
P-value for trend 0.002 0.062
*

Adjusted for age, sex, occupation, and body mass index