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Patient-voice source register — migraine

Last audited: 2026-08-30. Every PMID was re-fetched live through PubMed E-utilities in the audit session.

Syntheses and qualitative studies

Source Contribution Boundary
Ng et al. 2026, PMID 42256516 Meta-ethnography of migraine’s social life Meaning synthesis, not theme prevalence
Heidari et al. 2022, PMID 35254739 Cross-study patient-experience themes Source heterogeneity
Palacios-Ceña et al. 2017, PMID 28827275 Living with chronic migraine Severe clinic phenotype
Gerstein et al. 2023, PMID 36905166 Cognitive symptoms across attack phases Qualitative MiCOAS sample
Mangrum et al. 2023, PMID 37140142 Patient-prioritized acute/preventive benefits Forty interviews; priority, not prevalence

Interictal, stigma and representation

Source Contribution Boundary
Hubig et al. 2022, PMID 35941572 Interictal-burden measurement US/German survey development
Takizawa et al. 2025, PMID 40524160 Ictal and interictal burden in Japan Cross-sectional association
Young et al. 2013, PMID 23342079 Migraine versus epilepsy stigma comparison Clinic-based
Seng et al. 2022, PMID 36321956 Stigma’s unique association with disability/HRQoL Cross-sectional; direction unresolved
Uçan Tokuç et al. 2024, PMID 38500111 Internal stigma in chronic migraine/MOH Single setting
Raffaelli et al. 2021, PMID 34766918 Perception of online migraine imagery Image sample/platform dependent
Goadsby et al. 2025, PMID 40891742 European public knowledge and perceived stigma Organization-distributed survey

Health-system, work and family evidence

Source Contribution Boundary
Katsarava et al. 2018, PMID 29392600 European consultation/treatment gap Cross-country survey differences
Randerson et al. 2025, PMID 41134026 NZ primary-care clinician barriers Qualitative; one health system
McInnarney et al. 2024, PMID 39704768 NZ patient barriers Survey selection
Hutchinson et al. 2026, PMID 41721442 OVERCOME US unmet need Web sample and treatment definitions
Buse et al. 2019, PMID 31407321 Career, relationship and financial effects Self-reported CaMEO association
Buse et al. 2016, PMID 27132088 Paired family burden Selected participating partners
Buse et al. 2018, PMID 29355924 Adolescent impact of parental migraine Family-module selection
Lipton et al. 2017, PMID 28185239 IMPAC family-impact scale Instrument development/validation context
Loder et al. 2015, PMID 25644596 US minority-population burden/treatment synthesis Broad categories and incomplete evidence
Gibbs et al. 2020, PMID 32369201 My Migraine Voice patient survey ≥4 MMD and prevention experience/failure sample
Leonardi et al. 2019, PMID 31023226 Burden framed as life impact Conceptual/societal synthesis

Preference source

Gonzalez et al. 2013 (PMID 23808578) used a discrete-choice experiment to show that people value headache and post-headache outcomes differently. Choice experiments estimate tradeoffs under presented scenarios, not observed treatment behaviour.

Public organization sources

See organizations.md. All sites were checked directly on 2026-08-30; Headache Australia remained excluded after a fresh network-unreachable result rather than being treated as inactive or verified.

Explicit exclusions

  • No closed Facebook, WhatsApp, Discord or support-group content.
  • No individual story harvesting or named private-person testimony.
  • No social-media search results promoted to clinical or prevalence evidence.
  • No organization medical claim used as an efficacy or safety source.