Headaches: Current Treatments, Unmet Needs, and Patient Recruitment

Report Overview

ISR identifies and explores the patterns and preferences surrounding the needs, treatments, and side-effects 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 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

Methodology:

• 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