Identifying barriers to the conditional steps of effective migraine treatment

Key messages

• There are three conditional steps to effective preventative migraine treatment: consulting a healthcare professional, receiving an accurate diagnosis and taking a recommended preventative medication.^1,2
• Only 15.4% with disabling migraine traversed these steps.
• A higher likelihood of traversing the steps was associated with older age, having health insurance, higher migraine frequency, more severe migraine-related disability, pain severity, cutaneous allodynia, poor acute treatment optimization and care sought at a specialist.
• A lower likelihood of traversing the steps was associated with seeking care at an Emergency Department, Urgent Care or Retail Clinic.