One simple question detects motion sickness susceptibility in migraine patients

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OBJECTIVE: To find out if motion sickness susceptibility (MSS) of vestibular migraine (VM) patients and migraine only (MO) patients can be reliably detected with a single simple question: "Can you read while travelling in a car without getting motion sick?".

METHOD: Ninety-two definite VM and 58 MO patients and 74 healthy control (HC) subjects were asked about their MSS and about being able to read while riding in a car without becoming motion sick. A Motion Sickness Susceptibility Questionnaire (MSSQ-Short) including childhood (MSA), adulthood (MSB) and total (MST) parts was also administered to all participants. ROC curves of MSSQ-Short were prepared for "not being able to read in a car" as the gold standard.

RESULTS: Mean MSA scores were significantly higher in both VM and MO patients than in HCs (p < 0.001), but their scores were not significantly different (p = 0.171). Mean MSB and MST scores were significantly higher in VM than in MO patients (p < 0.001) and both VM and MO patients had significantly higher scores than HCs (p < 0.001). MSA scores were significantly higher than MSB scores in MO patients (p < 0.001). All sections of the questionnaire were associated with high area-under-curve values for MSS detected by the question about being able to read in a car without becoming motion sick.

CONCLUSION: We propose that all migraine patients could have the same level of MSS in childhood but MO patients are able to compensate over years, but VM patients are not. A quick way to determine MSS is to ask about the ability to read without becoming motion sickness while riding a car.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:90

Enthalten in:

Brazilian journal of otorhinolaryngology - 90(2024), 2 vom: 13. März, Seite 101382

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Akdal, Gülden [VerfasserIn]
Özçelik, Pınar [VerfasserIn]
Balcı, Birgül [VerfasserIn]
Halmágyi, Gábor Michael [VerfasserIn]
Ünal, Belgin [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Journal Article
Migraine
Motion sickness
Vertigo
Vestibular migraine

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Date Completed 01.04.2024

Date Revised 01.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.bjorl.2023.101382

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM367099950