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.