The HARDSHIP databases: a forthcoming free good from the Global Campaign against Headache

Timothy J Steiner; Andreas Husøy; Hallie Thomas; Lars Jacob Stovner

doi:10.1186/s10194-023-01554-9

The HARDSHIP databases: a forthcoming free good from the Global Campaign against Headache

J Headache Pain. 2023 Mar 6;24(1):21. doi: 10.1186/s10194-023-01554-9.

Authors

Timothy J Steiner^{1

2

3}, Andreas Husøy^{4

5}, Hallie Thomas⁴, Lars Jacob Stovner^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, NorHEAD, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Edvard Griegs Gate, Trondheim, Norway. [email protected].
² Department of Neurology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. [email protected].
³ Division of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK. [email protected].
⁴ Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, NorHEAD, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Edvard Griegs Gate, Trondheim, Norway.
⁵ Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Norwegian Advisory Unit On Headaches, St Olavs Hospital, Trondheim, Norway.

Abstract

In order to pursue its purpose of reducing the global burden of headache, the Global Campaign against Headache has gathered data on headache-attributed burden from countries worldwide. These data, from the individual participants in adult population-based studies and child and adolescent schools-based studies, are being collated in two databases, which will be powerful resources for research and teaching and rich information sources for health policy.Here we briefly describe the structure and content of these databases, and announce the intention to make them available in due course as a free good.

Keywords: Big data; Burden; Global Campaign against Headache; HARDSHIP questionnaire; Headache; Health policy; Prevalence.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Child
Databases, Factual
Headache* / epidemiology
Headache* / therapy
Health Policy*
Humans
Information Sources
Schools