Headaches: Current Treatments, Unmet Needs, and Patient Recruitment

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Headaches:
Current Treatments,
Unmet Needs, and
Patient Recruitment

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Chronic cluster headaches - Tension headaches - Migraines
ISR identifies and explores the patterns and preferences surrounding the needs, treatments, and sideeffects of patients living with chronic cluster headaches, tension headaches, and migraines.
This report provides pharmaceutical and biotech companies and their service providers with an
opportunity to position their product, enhance clinical development planning, and improve clinical trial
patient recruitment.

How you can use this report:
• Quickly get a baseline for “a day in the life” of
a severe headache sufferer. Learn about their
conditions, quality of life, headache triggers,
unmet needs, and treatment satisfaction
• Talk their language and design your marketing
and advertising plans to account for the
current issues and unmet patient needs
• Improve protocol design and patient recruitment

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Respondents

efforts by incorporating socio-economic and
treatment-specific messages into your plans
• Understand what types of physicians patients
are seeing and what is impacting their
medication treatment decisions
• And more… See the full table of contents in
this preview for a full list of topics covered in
this report

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Methodology and Reporting:
• 209 patients in the United States who were screened for having chronic cluster headaches, tension
headaches, or migraines completed a 30-minute web-based quantitative survey conducted by ISR.
• All survey questions were segmented by the three conditions analyzed, as well as by
• Type of insurance
• The patient’s likelihood of enrolling in a clinical trial
• Type of primary physician the patient is seeing for treatment
• Length of time since diagnosis
• Severity of symptoms
• Age
• Household income
• Number of treatments
• Type of treatment

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Report Structure
1. Executive Summary
2. Headache Profiles
• ISR provides an indication baseline by quantifying headache frequency, severity, family history,
and other factors that impact the current patient condition

3. Health Conditions
• ISR measures how satisfied patients are with their physical ability, overall health status, and
quality of life providing insight into how and why patients seek treatment

4. Unmet Needs, Symptoms, and Triggers
• ISR identifies patients’ unmet treatment needs, symptoms most commonly experienced, and
the most common triggers

5. Diagnosis Metrics
• ISR quantifies time from first symptom to diagnosis, frequency of misdiagnosis, and factors
that play into whether additional medical opinions are sought

6. Physician Use
• ISR identifies the types of physicians patients see for treatment, the amount of personal
research patients do, and the sources – aside from their physician – that influence treatment
decision-making

7. Current Treatment Regimens
• ISR quantifies current and past treatment regimens and quantifies their effectiveness and
patient satisfaction with those treatment regimens, as well as their desired improvements

8. Likelihood of Enrolling in a Clinical Trial
• ISR identifies patients’ likelihood of enrolling in a clinical trial and provides recommendations
to pharmaceutical companies and service providers/ CROs for patient communication

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Table of Contents
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Introduction

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Introduction

If asked to describe what the list above has in common, most people would probably
first think of what well-to-do people do to relax, maybe while at a spa� However, to
those suffering from chronic headaches, cluster headaches, or migraines, this list has
quite a different connotation�
For people who suffer from these conditions, their caregivers, family members, and
friends, severe headaches are no day at the spa� For those who are fortunate enough
not to suffer from severe headaches, it is nearly impossible to fully understand what
those who do are going through� It’s very easy to say something like “come on, it is just a
headache, take a couple of aspirin and you will be fine�” But that’s simply not the case�
Headaches have a significant impact on the economy in addition to the individual�
According to a World Health Organization report, Atlas of headache disorders and
resources in the world 2011, in the United Kingdom approximately 25 million working
or school days are lost every year due to migraines alone�
Prior to GSK’s introduction of injectable Imitrex (sumatriptan succinate) in 1992, severe
headache suffers had very little at their disposal that offered relatively quick relief� What
makes treating severe headaches so complicated is the myriad of triggers that can
bring on a severe headache� Triggers can range from food allergies to stress to sunlight
to certain types of motion to menstrual cycles�
This research report was designed to give drug developers and marketers information
from severe headache suffers regarding their current treatment satisfaction, their
unmet needs, and provide insight into their likelihood to enroll in clinical trials�
If you could tell the pharmaceutical industry one thing about living with cluster, migraine,
or tension headaches and how they might be able to help, what would you tell them?
That I don’t know what it is like to live like everyone else. I have had these migraines
since a teenager. I don’t go a day without pain. I don’t know what it is to feel “good” like
normal people. I don’t know what it is to wake up without pain or sleep the entire night
through. I don’t know what it is like to let my children play and scream without shushing
them because my head hurts. Or to go outside during a sunny day, ever, because it
causes a migraine. Or to be in a place with a lot of people because all the smells trigger
a migraine. Or to have the medication not make me feel tired and foggy on top of still
having the headache. I miss out on so much of life.” – Migraine patient respondent

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