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3-22-2024

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Abstract

Migraine disease affects approximately 1 billion people worldwide and contributes significantly to the global disease burden due to its costs to the financial and employment sector. Patients with migraine have also been reported to experience stigmatization from internal and external sources that contribute to their disease burden. We identified a gap in the literature where provider perspectives, attitudes, and beliefs on migraine and migraine patients have not been well-explored. We are seeking to understand the perspective of providers from multiple specialties that see patients with migraine, including primary care, emergency medicine, headache, and general neurology. In this semi-structured qualitative interview study of 10 providers, we better define ways that stigma is manifested in the healthcare system and strategies to improve care for migraine patients.

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Migraine is a disease of the brain that affects many people around the world. Migraine disease is really difficult for patients to deal with because it can cause headache, nausea, vomiting, sensitivity to light and sound as well as a lot of other symptoms that get in the way of patients living their lives. Many people also have negative feelings about and reactions to migraine disease and migraine patients, and this causes a lot of extra burden for migraine patients who are already going through a lot of pain due to their disease. We found that there is not a lot of information about how medical providers, especially providers from primary care and emergency medicine, feel and think about migraine and migraine patients. Because of this, we made this study to interview providers and try to learn more about how they think about migraine. We hope to gain information from these interviews that can help us make migraine patient care better.

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