Department of Health Sciences and Human Performance, The University of Tampa, Tampa, FL 33606, USA.
Department of Mathematics, The University of Tampa, Tampa, FL 33606, USA.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Apr 13;20(8):5499. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20085499.
Migraines, a chronic disease, can be debilitating in university students, affecting their academic performance, attendance, and social interactions. The purpose of this study was to identify the impact of COVID-19 on the role functioning and perceived stress levels of students suffering from migraine-like headaches.
Two identical cross-sectional surveys were sent to students in Fall 2019 and Spring 2021 at a mid-sized university in the U.S. The students were queried on the headache impact scale (HIT-6) and perceived stress scale (PSS-10). Associations between the migraine-like headaches, severity of the headaches, stress levels, and headache impacts on the individuals' role functioning were analyzed.
The average age of the respondents (n = 721) was 20.81 ± 4.32 years in 2019 and (n = 520) 20.95 ± 3.19 years in 2021. A difference ( = 0.044) was found in the HIT-6 score <49 category. The other categories of the HIT-6 and the PSS-10 were not significant.
During COVID-19, more students answered that their migraine-like headaches had lower impacts on their role functioning, thus suggesting that the students were having less severe migraines. A trend was seen for student's stress levels, indicating a decrease from 2019 to 2021. Furthermore, our results showed that the impact of headaches and stress levels slightly declined throughout the pandemic.
偏头痛是一种慢性疾病,会使大学生身体虚弱,影响他们的学业成绩、出勤率和社交互动。本研究的目的是确定 COVID-19 对患有偏头痛样头痛的学生的角色功能和感知压力水平的影响。
在 2019 年秋季和 2021 年春季,我们向美国一所中型大学的学生发送了两份完全相同的横断面调查。学生们接受了头痛影响量表(HIT-6)和感知压力量表(PSS-10)的询问。分析了偏头痛样头痛、头痛严重程度、压力水平以及头痛对个体角色功能的影响之间的关联。
2019 年(n = 721)和 2021 年(n = 520)受访者的平均年龄分别为 20.81 ± 4.32 岁和 20.95 ± 3.19 岁。在 HIT-6 评分<49 类别中发现差异(= 0.044)。HIT-6 和 PSS-10 的其他类别没有显著差异。
在 COVID-19 期间,更多的学生回答他们的偏头痛样头痛对他们的角色功能的影响较低,这表明学生的偏头痛发作较不严重。学生的压力水平呈下降趋势,表明从 2019 年到 2021 年有所下降。此外,我们的结果表明,头痛和压力水平的影响在整个大流行期间略有下降。