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The Stigma of Migraine

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  • William B Young
  • Jung E Park
  • Iris X Tian
  • Joanna Kempner

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Background: People who have a disease often experience stigma, a socially and culturally embedded process through which individuals experience stereotyping, devaluation, and discrimination. Stigma has great impact on quality of life, behavior, and life chances. We do not know whether or not migraine is stigmatizing. Methods: We studied 123 episodic migraine patients, 123 chronic migraine patients, and 62 epilepsy patients in a clinical setting to investigate the extent to which stigma attaches to migraine, using epilepsy as a comparison. We used the stigma scale for chronic illness, a 24-item questionnaire suitable for studying chronic neurologic diseases, and various disease impact measures. Results: Patients with chronic migraine had higher scores (54.0±20.2) on the stigma scale for chronic illness than either episodic migraine (41.7±14.8) or epilepsy patients (44.6±16.3) (p

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  • William B Young & Jung E Park & Iris X Tian & Joanna Kempner, 2013. "The Stigma of Migraine," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(1), pages 1-8, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0054074
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054074
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