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3D Cinema and Headache: The First Evidential Relation and Analysis of Involved Factors

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Neurology, March 2016
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Title
3D Cinema and Headache: The First Evidential Relation and Analysis of Involved Factors
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Frontiers in Neurology, March 2016
DOI 10.3389/fneur.2016.00030
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Mark Braschinsky, Aire Raidvee, Liis Sabre, Nadezhda Zmachinskaja, Olga Zukovskaja, Anti Karask, Bruno Saar, Aleksei Rakitin

Abstract

A possible link between 3D movies and headache (HA) has never been a target of specific and systematic investigations. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between 3D cinema and HA and to evaluate possible risk factors of developing HA during or after watching a 3D movie. This was a prospective, non-randomized, observational study. Six thousand specifically designed questionnaires were distributed to consecutive cinema visitors. Relative HA risks for 2D- vs. 3D-movie visitors and the effects of background variables were analyzed. The questionnaire was filled and returned by 1293 persons. The mean age of responders was 33.0 ± 11.3 years. Individuals who viewed 3D movies reported HA during or after the movie 1.61 times more often than 2D-movie viewers (11.1% in 3D vs. 7.2% in 2D movies, p = 0.017). The risk was higher in women: 2.65 times for 2D (p = 0.019) and 1.85 times for 3D movies (p = 0.06), and decreased with age by 4.6% with each year for 2D (p = 0.0035) and by 3.2% for 3D movies (p = 0.0098). Among 3D-movie visitors, those with previous HAs were 4.17 times more prone to get a cinema-induced HA (p = 0.02). The risk was the highest for persons with migraine (OR = 3.37, p = 0.001). For the first time, it was evidentially shown that 3D movies can provoke HA. Persons at risk are mostly younger women and/or migraineurs. Based on our results, for those belonging to the aforementioned risk groups, it can be mainly recommended to choose passive 3D technology and to view movies from the farthest possible distance.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 15 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 4 27%
Student > Bachelor 3 20%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 2 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 13%
Student > Master 1 7%
Other 1 7%
Unknown 2 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 3 20%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 13%
Neuroscience 2 13%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 7%
Other 3 20%
Unknown 2 13%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 December 2022.
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#2,392,547
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Outputs from Frontiers in Neurology
#1,237
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#40,512
of 301,737 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Neurology
#9
of 56 outputs
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