An observational study of headache disability index with reference to different Mizaj to evaluate life quality of headache patients

Abstract

Headache is an almost universal experience and one of the most common symptom in medical practice. Headache disorders are among the most common of the nervous system disorders with the prevalence of 48.9 percent in the general population. Some headaches are extremely debilitating and have a significant impact on an individual’s quality of life imposing huge costs to healthcare and their consequences leads to disability. Concept of Mizaj in the Unani system of medicine is a wide area of research. Mizaj is one of the basic and fundamental concept of the Unani system of medicine, diagnosis and line of management of any disease is based upon it. In this cross sectional descriptive study to assess the Mizaj and headache disability, we used Mizaj assessment proforma based on classical literature and Headache Disability Index proforma (developed by Doctor Yusuf Jamal) in headache patients of different age and both gender & this study was carried out in Out Patient Department and In Patient Department of Ayurvedic and Unani Tibbia college and hospital, Karol Bagh, New Delhi. Analysis of data in the current study was done by calculating the Mean, Standard Deviation and one way Analysis of Variance in SPSS 22.0 software for all the factors of Mizaj and Headache Disability Index. The findings suggested that Headache Disability Index had significant association with the variability of Mizaj of the headache patients.