Table 3.

Qualitative Support for HIT‐6 Item 1 (Pain Severity)

Author/Year	Population (n)	Qualitative Support
Coeytaux et al, 200739	Headache (19)	Patients report pain is the most important symptom
Davis et al, 200232	Migraine (793)	At least 75% of focus group participants (3 focus groups, n = 10‐15 per group) listed pain relief as important or very important
Hartmaier et al, 199534	Migraine (82)	Migraine impairments were generated from 6 one‐on‐one interviews with migraine patients. Presented to 76 new patients to indicate if they experienced an impairment or not and to rate impairments for importance, “throbbing head pain” was an impairment experienced by 91% and has a mean importance of 4.47 on a 1‐5 scale
Mannix et al, 201636	Migraine (literature review/9 articles)	“… intensity of the migraine often had a direct and immediate impact on their ability to function …”
Peters et al, 200537	Migraine (13)	“Impact was a relative concept that was influenced by pain severity and headache frequency”
Ruiz de Velasco et al, 200338	Migraine (29)	“And when the pain is very, very severe there are times when I can't get to sleep because of the pain”
		“The pain is excruciating, unbearable”
		“… because your whole body hurts, and you feel pain when there is any kind of noise, light, anything at all …”
		“In my case, for example, I was in pain every Sunday …”

Italics indicate direct interviewee quote reported in publication.