Background: Headache disorder is one of the most common complaints in medical practice, classified as primary and secondary; migraine is one of the most common types of primary headache. Objectives of the study: Identify the prevalence of migraine headaches among family medicine physicians, identify the risk factors of the migraine, and identify the associations between the trigger factors and migraine. Methods: A cross-sectional online study was conducted on a convenient online sample of 500 family physicians in a famous Facebook group for family physicians for a period of four months from July to October during 2021. Results: The study revealed that the prevalence of suspicion-migraine was 17.4% among the participants. There was a significant association between the age of the participants and the suspicion of migraine, as the young participants were associated with the suspicion of migraine more than the old age participants. There was a significant association between participants with a family history of migraine, participants that have a headache diagnosed as a migraine, and participants who take medication and the suspicions of migraine. Triggers (diet, skipped meals, stress, and sleep deprivation) were found to be statistically significantly associated with the suspicions of migraine participants. Conclusion: The study reveals that the prevalence of suspected migraine in family physicians was 17. 4. Light or noise bothering them is the most common associated symptom with the suspicions of migraine participants. Triggers (diet, skipped meals, stress, and sleep deprivation) were found to affect the migraine participants.
Ahmed Jaafar Baqer*1, Ali Abd Ali Sahib2, Rasha Jumaah Mahmood3 (2026) studied this question.