FRAMIG 2000: medical and therapeutic management of migraine in France

Cephalalgia. 2005 Apr;25(4):267-79. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2982.2004.00851.x.

Abstract

FRAMIG 2000 is a population-based survey of medical and therapeutic management of migraine in France. A total of 312 migraine sufferers were first identified from a representative sample of 4689 adult subjects using a validated questionnaire based on the IHS migraine diagnostic criteria and administered by telephone. Subjects were then interviewed using a branching questionnaire and a computer-assisted interview technique. Although 80% were self-aware of their migrainous state, 82% of migraine sufferers had no medical follow-up for migraine. The proportion of migraine sufferers who did not consult decreased slightly with increasing migraine-related disability (from 87% for subjects in MIDAS grade I to 68% for those in MIDAS grade IV). Migraine sufferers declared to effectively control only four attacks out of 10 after the first intake of the usual treatment. Only 6% of subjects in the survey received a prophylactic treatment for migraine whereas 22% were in MIDAS grade III or IV. These data show that the burden of migraine does not result from a deficit in diagnosis but instead from a deficit in patient information on the proper use of current effective treatments of migraine.

Publication types

  • Clinical Trial

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Analgesics / therapeutic use*
  • Attitude to Health*
  • Female
  • France / epidemiology
  • Health Care Surveys
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Migraine Disorders / drug therapy*
  • Migraine Disorders / epidemiology*
  • Patient Compliance / statistics & numerical data
  • Patient Education as Topic / statistics & numerical data*
  • Practice Patterns, Physicians' / statistics & numerical data*
  • Prevalence
  • Risk Assessment / methods*
  • Risk Factors
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Analgesics