Feasibility of a brief intervention for medication-overuse headache in primary care – a pilot study

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Table 3 Patient characteristics at baseline and after brief intervention (three months follow-up)

Patient	Gender	Age	Overused medication at baseline	Headache days before BI	Headache days before BI (diary)+	Headache days after BI	Headache days after BI (diary)+	Medication days before BI	Medication days before BI (diary)+	Medication days after BI	Medication days after BI (diary)+	Headache diagnoses at follow-up
1	Female	45	Paracetamol/Ibuprofen	30	30	30	30	30	30	30*	30	Cervicogenic
2	Male	27	Paracetamol/Ibuprofen	25	26	20	18	22	22	5	4	CTTH
3	Female	45	Paracetamol	30	30	18	16	30	30	2	2	CTTH
4	Female	29	Paracetamol/Ibuprofen	30	30	22	22	30	30	14	14	CTTH + migraine
5	Female	35	Combination analgesic (Acetylsalicylic acid/Codeine/Caffeine)	18	18	14	14	18	18	12*	12	ETTH
Mean		36		27	27	21	20	26	26	13	12

BI; brief intervention, CTTH; chronic tension-type headache, ETTH; episodic tension-type headache.
+Headache days and medications days taken from 2 week headache diary.
*Two had completely terminated medication for 2 months but restarted before 3 months follow-up.

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