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. 2021 Dec 18;22(1):153. doi: 10.1186/s10194-021-01362-z

Table 5.

Spearman correlations between disability1 and lost paid worktime attributed to probable medication-overuse headache by country (values of N vary because of zero values in some responses to either question)

Country HALT question 1 (absenteeism) HALT question 2 (presenteeism) HALT questions 1 + 2 (total lost paid work time)
N rs p N rs p N rs p
Ethiopia 23 0.15 0.49 23 0.08 0.72 23 0.20 0.37
India 27 0.05 0.82 27 0.27 0.17 27 0.11 0.58
Lithuania + Luxembourg 46 0.08 0.59 47 0.39 0.01 49 0.30 0.04
Nepal 53 0.05 0.73 53 0.08 0.59 53 0.04 0.80
Pakistan 93 −0.58 < 0.001 93 −0.51 < 0.001 94 −0.54 < 0.001
Russia 64 − 0.002 0.98 64 − 0.13 0.30 64 −0.8 0.52
Spain 45 0.05 0.73 46 0.18 0.22 49 0.21 0.15

HALT: Headache-Attributed Lost Time questionnaire. 1 Calculated as proportion of time in ictal state*disability weight from GBD2015 [49]; significant p-values are emboldened.