Masoumeh Azizi; Hamid Reza Agha-MohammadiyanShaarbaf; Ali Mashhadi; Mohamad Asghari-Ebrahimabaad
Volume 23, Issue 4 , September and October 2016, , Pages 706-713
Abstract
Background Given the importance of psychological factors in the development and exacerbation of symptoms of migraine, this study aimed to compare the psychological status of patients with migraine with healthy subjects.Methods & Materials The study method is causal-comparative and statistical population ...
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Background Given the importance of psychological factors in the development and exacerbation of symptoms of migraine, this study aimed to compare the psychological status of patients with migraine with healthy subjects.Methods & Materials The study method is causal-comparative and statistical population included all patients of Khatomol-Anbia Hospital in Zahedan who were referred there with headache during the 2015 . Of the patients with headache, migraine patients were identified with a definite diagnosis by a neurologist. A total of 105 people with migraine and 105 normal subjects were considered as control (who had not experienced any headaches). They completed SCL-90 questionnaire and the obtained data analyzed by using descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation) and MANOVA. Software Gpower was used.Results The results showed that between migraine and healthy, there was a psychological state for the new dependent variable component of the composition (F(200,9)=72.41, P<0.001). So that people with migraine compared to non-affected ones, in all components of somatization, obsession-compulsion, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation and psychotic have higher scores than the healthy people (P<0.001).