The prevalence of migraine headache among students of Fakeeh College in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Background: Migraine headache is the most common health problem in the world that affects either one side or the whole head. It's usually felt as a pulsating pain, and could last up to 2-3 days; nausea, photophobia (sensitive to light) and phonophobia (sensitive to sound) are the associated symptom that comes with it. Due to the lack of studies done on migraine among medical field students in Saudi Arabia our aim was to measure the prevalence of migraine headache among students of Fakeeh College for medical sciences (FCMS) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted randomly among Fakeeh college students, from June to September 2020. All academic years was included, the data were collected through a questionnaire entered to Excel, then in statistical analysis frequency test was used for all univariate questions except for age mean and standard deviation were used to analyze it and (chi-square) were used for all bivariate variables. Results: Out of 800 students 313 has completed the questionnaire, female participants were higher in number than males. The prevalence of migraine headache was (71.6%). Moderate migraine headache was reported the highest among these students, and our findings showed that migraine increased with higher levels of academic year. Also, it showed that the most trigger increases headache was irregular sleep. Conclusion: According to our findings the prevalence of migraine was high in percentage among Fakeeh college students, and it increased with higher levels of academic years. The most increasing headache trigger was irregular sleep.