Table 4.
Satisfaction with medication for acute relief of migraine symptoms (patient reported)
| Treatment, n (%) | TIRs (n = 483) |
TRs (n = 930) |
All (n = 1413) |
p-valuea |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Would you like to continue taking your medication?b | < 0.001 | |||
| Definitely yes | 169 (37.0) | 604 (69.1) | 773 (58.1) | |
| Probably yes | 209 (45.7) | 243 (27.8) | 452 (34.0) | |
| Do not know | 59 (12.9) | 24 (2.7) | 83 (6.2) | |
| Probably not | 16 (3.5) | 3 (0.3) | 19 (1.4) | |
| Definitely not | 4 (0.9) | 0 | 4 (0.3) | |
| Reasons for dissatisfactionb,c | ||||
| I feel that my migraine medication doesn’t work well | 79 (58.5) | 12 (31.6) | 91 (52.6) | 0.003 |
| My migraine medication does not work as well as it used to | 46 (34.1) | 14 (36.8) | 60 (34.7) | 0.751 |
| The severity of the side effects I experience | 23 (17.0) | 2 (5.3) | 25 (14.5) | 0.068 |
| The number of side effects I experience | 14 (10.4) | 2 (5.3) | 16 (9.2) | 0.528 |
| I am not happy with the way I have to take my migraine medication | 10 (7.4) | 5 (13.2) | 15 (8.7) | 0.325 |
| Cost | 1 (0.7) | 0 | 1 (0.6) | 1.00 |
| Other reasons | 5 (1.2) | 6 (0.7) | 11 (0.8) | 0.344 |
aP-values from test of two group difference: t-test for continuous variables and chi-square for categorical variables. bPatient reported. cIn patients who were neither satisfied nor extremely satisfied with acute medication. Patients could tick all responses that applied
TIR triptan insufficient responder; TR triptan responder