title: Evaluation of Eating Attitude in Patients with Migraine.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This study aimed to investigate the eating attitudes in patients with migraine.
  
  
  METHODS
  Fifty-nine patients (mean age: 32.54±8.47 years) diagnosed with migraine according to the International Classification of Headache Disorder, 2004, and 47 age-, gender- and education-matched healthy controls (mean age: 31.85±7.14 years) were enrolled for this study. Sociodemographic data were recorded, and the body mass index was calculated as kilograms per meter squared. Data regarding the duration of illness and attack, frequency of migraine attacks, and the presence of aura were recorded. Migraine severity was assessed by Migraine Disability Assessment Score (MIDAS). Eating Attitudes Test (EAT), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), and Beck Anxiety Inventory were applied to all participants.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The patients with migraine had significantly higher EAT scores, levels of anxiety, and depression than controls (p<.01). Furthermore, 11.9% of patients with migraine had an EAT score of 30 or higher, which is suggestive of a disordered eating attitude, whereas this rate was 2.1% in healthy controls (p<.05). The scores of EAT and BDI had positive correlation with the scores of MIDAS in patients with migraine (r=.298, p<.05; r=.332, p=.01, respectively).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In our study, disordered eating attitudes and the levels of anxiety and depression were high in patients with migraine than controls. Our study is important to demonstrate the connection between migraine and disordered eating attitudes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Süleyman Demirel University Faculty of Medicine, Isparta, Turkey.
authors.forename: Kadir
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Demirci
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Süleyman Demirel University Faculty of Medicine, Isparta, Turkey.
authors.forename: Seden
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Demirci
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Süleyman Demirel University Faculty of Medicine, Isparta, Turkey.
authors.forename: Abdullah
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Akpinar
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Süleyman Demirel University Faculty of Medicine, Isparta, Turkey.
authors.forename: Arif
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Demirdaş
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Süleyman Demirel University Faculty of Medicine, Isparta, Turkey.
authors.forename: İnci Meltem
authors.initials: İM
authors.lastname: Atay
keywords: Migraine; eating attitude; eating disorder