Prevalência de enxaqueca e a relação com o consumo de café entre acadêmicos e professores de uma universidade

Abstract

Objectives: Establish and characterize the prevalence of migraine and its relationship with caffeine consumption among academics and professors at a public university in western Pará. Methodology: Cross-sectional, exploratory-descriptive, quantitative study, with data obtained through Google Forms® forms, in a sample of 214 academics and professors of health courses at the State University of Pará, in Santarém, Brazil. The correlation between categorical variables was calculated using Fisher's exact test. Results: The headache prevalence was 74%, of which 75% had clinical features of migraine. Among students, 75% complained of headache, of which 87.8% reported a frequency of 1-15 episodes per month. Among teachers, the prevalence of headache was 65%. The majority were female (62%) and studying or teaching medicine (51%). As for daily coffee consumption, 95% of participants drink 1-5 cups of coffee, with 28% reporting headache worsening and 39% improvement with coffee consumption. There was no significant correlation between the daily amount of coffee consumed and the frequency of headache (p=0.315). Conclusions: The migraine occurrence is high among university students and teachers, as well as coffee consumption, but it is not possible to establish a direct relationship. Both can interfere with the quality of life, requiring further studies and adequate prevention and control measures, minimizing individual and collective damage.