Research Article
Prevalence of Chronic Headache in Croatia
Table 1
Demographic characteristics of patients with and without headache.
| | Demographic characteristic | Total
(%) | Headache
(%) | No headache
(%) | value |
| | City | | | | <0.0001 | | Zagreb | 578 | 245 (38.3) | 333 (36.9) | | Split | 485 | 200 (31.3) | 285 (31.6) | | Dubrovnik | 307 | 157 (24.5) | 150 (16.6) | | Osijek | 95 | 38 (5.9) | 57 (6.3) | | Women | 926 (60.1) | 452 (70.6) | 474 (52.5) | <0.0001 | | Age, mean (SD), yrs | 42 (17) | 42 (14) | 42 (17) | 0.4533 | | Education | | | | 0.6754 | | Elementary | 183 (11.9) | 78 (12.2) | 105 (11.6) | | High school | 827 (53.6) | 350 (54.7) | 477 (52.9) | | College | 133 (8.6) | 49 (7.7) | 84 (9.3) | | University | 354 (23) | 150 (23.4) | 204 (22.6) | | NA | 43 (2.8) | | | | Marital status | | | | 0.0095 | | Married | 814 (52.8) | 369 (57.7) | 445 (49.3) | | Not married | 553 (35.9) | 202 (31.6) | 351 (38.9) | | Widower | 56 (3.6) | 20 (3.1) | 36 (4.0) | | Divorced | 66 (4.3) | 29 (4.5) | 37 (4.1) | | NA | 52 (3.4) | | | | Employment | | | | <0.0001 | | Employed | 895 (58) | 408 (63.8) | 487 (54.0) | | Not employed | 228 (14.8) | 90 (14.1) | 138 (15.3) | | Student | 185 (12) | 68 (10.6) | 117 (13.0) | | Retired | 203 (13.2) | 58 (9.1) | 145 (16.1) | | NA | 31 (2.0) | | | | Place of living | | | | 0.1024 | | City | 987 (64) | 402 (62.8) | 585 (64.9) | | Suburb | 414 (26.8) | 189 (29.5) | 225 (24.9) | | Rural area | 120 (7.7) | 43 (6.7) | 76 (8.4) | | NA | 21 (1.4) | | |
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