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Patient counseling and medication teaching was conducted on compliance and orientation to drug therapy for 278 headache patients from Apr. 1993 to Jul. 1993 by co-work of doctors and pharmacists. Counseling was conducted with medication teaching manual and drug sample and then it was recorded to currently medication history, adverse effects and counseling contents. In analysis of counseling contents, headache incidence was higher in female than male (71.6% : 28.4%) and highest on the fifties. The percentage of headache types of tension HA, migraine, mixed type HA was 76.1%, 13.5%, 10.8% respectively. 160 patients(66.1%) had been conducted compliance well. Adverse effects were appeared in the form drowsiness, GI trouble, dry mouth, weight gain, constipation.
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