• J Headache Pain · Dec 2017

    Multicenter Study

    The burden of headache is associated to pain interference, depression and headache duration in chronic tension type headache: a 1-year longitudinal study.

    • Stella Fuensalida-Novo, Maria Palacios-Ceña, Juan J Fernández-Muñoz, Matteo Castaldo, Kelun Wang, Antonella Catena, Lars Arendt-Nielsen, and César Fernández-de-Las-Peñas.
    • Department Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Rehabilitation, and Physical Medicine, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, University Rey Juan Carlos, Avenida de Atenas s/n, 28922 Alcorcón, Madrid, Spain.
    • J Headache Pain. 2017 Dec 28; 18 (1): 119.

    BackgroundTo investigate variables associated at one year (longitudinal design) with the physical or emotional component of burden in chronic tension type headache (CTTH).MethodsOne hundred and thirty (n = 130) individuals with CTTH participated in this longitudinal study. Clinical features were collected with a 4-weeks headache diary at baseline and 1-year follow-up. The burden of headache was assessed at baseline and one -year follow-up with the Headache Disability Inventory (HDI), physical (HDI-P) or emotional (HDI-E) component. Sleep quality (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index), anxiety and depression (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale-HADS), and quality of life (SF-36) were also assessed at baseline. Hierarchical regression analyses were conducted to determine the associations between the baseline variables and the headache burden at 1-year. Simple mediation models were also applied to determine the potential mediation effect of any intermediary variable.ResultsRegression analyses revealed that baseline pain interference and depression explained 32% of the variance in the emotional burden of headache, whereas baseline emotional burden of the headache, pain interference, and headache duration explained 51% of the variance in the physical burden of headache (P < .01) at 1-year. The mediation models observed that the effect of baseline pain interference on emotional burden of headache at 1-year was mediated through baseline depression, whereas the effect of baseline pain interference on the physical burden of headache at 1-year was mediated through baseline emotional burden of headache (both P < .05).ConclusionsThe current study found a longitudinal interaction between pain interference and depression with the burden of headache in individuals with CTTH.

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