The evaluation of migraine prevalence and associated demographic factors among government employees of Kerman city

  Migraine is one of the most common chronic neurologic disorders that is prevalence among the people of working age, and causes episodic incapacity for work in some sufferers. Migraine imposes an enormous health burden and great expenses on sufferers and society. To evaluate the frequency of migraine and it's relation to some demographic factors on a sample of government employees in Kerman city. A study was conducted among 1029 employees of 20 government offices in Kerman that were selected through cluster random sampling method. From 1029 subjects under the survey ,473 (46℅) of the individuals were women and 556 (54℅) were men of which 659 (64℅) suffered from headache. According to HIS diagnostic criteria 107 of the subjects suffered from migraine headache. Among this group 67 (62.6℅) of the subjects were women and 40 (37.4℅) were men. The prevalence rate of migraine in our study was 10.4℅ . Range of the population was 26-45 years old and average age of this group was 36.1 years old. This average age was higher than of the nonmigraine employees in our study. Most of migrainous employees had an employees, background of 10-14 years  and mean of employees, background in males was higher. Based on the result of this study a significant correlation ( p<0.05) was found between migrain and , age sex, and years of the employment. The prevalence of migrain was highest among the age group of 36-45 years (14.7℅) also highest among females and employees with the longest employment. The highest disease occurrence has been found among employees with 10-14 years of experience ( p<0.05) and a significant correlation was found between employment years and the prevalence of migraine ( p<0.05)