Headache characteristics in senior medical students in Turkey

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 213, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 277-282

  Bicakci, Sebnem ^a   Over, Fahrettin ^a   Aslan, Kezban ^a   Bozdemir, Nafiz ^a   Saatci, Esra ^a   Sarica, Yakup ^a  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Headache characteristics; Medical students; Migraine; Tension type headache; Turkey

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MIGRAINE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; STUDENT ATTITUDE; TENSION HEADACHE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADULT; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; PARENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STUDENTS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TENSION-TYPE HEADACHE; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 36949021604     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.213.277     Document Type: Article

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