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In the background of stressful life in medical schools, adding to the stressful situation in Palestine, a developing country under occupation, this study investigated the prevalence and clinical characteristics of migraines and tension- type headaches among medical students from the Palestinian Universities in West Bank and Gaza.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      A questionnaire-based cross-sectional study was conducted on all Palestinian Medical Students. Students were diagnosed based on ICHD-3 criteria. Demographic characteristics were compared by gender for each type of headache. Frequency, percentage, and mean\u2009\u00b1\u2009SD. Pearson\u2019s chi-squared test, independent t-test, and one-way ANOVA were used where needed.\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      -value &lt;\u20090.05 was considered significant.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The study included 806 medical students; 476 (59.0%) of them were female. TTH and migraine\u2019s prevalence was 59.8 and 22%, respectively, with a higher prevalence among basic year students. The female to male ratio was 1:0.6 for both types of headaches. Sleep deprivation, physical activities, and altered sleep patterns were reported as the top triggering factors.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The results demonstrate that the prevalence of both subtypes\u2019 primary headache is high among Palestinian medical students, with a higher prevalence among basic year students.<\/jats:p>\n                    <jats:p>The study also showed that these findings are higher than other studies among medical students in other countries.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s12883-021-02526-9","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,3]],"date-time":"2022-01-03T02:03:20Z","timestamp":1641175400000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of headache among medical students in Palestine: a cross sectional study"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Firas","family":"Anaya","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wala\u2019a","family":"Abu Alia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Feda\u2019a","family":"Hamoudeh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zaher","family":"Nazzal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Beesan","family":"Maraqa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"2526_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"193","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1468-2982.2007.01288.x","volume":"27","author":"LJ Stovner","year":"2007","unstructured":"Stovner LJ, Hagen K, Jensen R, et al. 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