February 26, 2003
View Full PaperMigraine Disability Assessment (MIDAS) Score: Relation to Headache Frequency, Pain Intensity, and Headache Symptoms
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Abstract
Challenges to the utility of the MIDAS as a measure include whether headache-related disability is largely a function of other routine headache features and whether MIDAS is inherently biased based on work status and gender. While the MIDAS score was associated with headache frequency and average pain score, these two headache features explain only a modest proportion of the variation in MIDAS scores. Additionally, gender and work status were not related to MIDAS scores. These findings suggest that the MIDAS score captures information about disability that is not inherent to other headache features and is independent of gender and work status.