Psychological assessment
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Psychological assessment · Oct 2017
Development of the Cogniphobia Scale for Headache Disorders (CS-HD): A pilot study.
Cogniphobia refers to the specific fear and avoidance of cognitive exertion, which is believed to precipitate or exacerbate headache. This parallels a well-documented phenomenon, kinesiophobia (fear of movement), in chronic pain. The existing measure of cogniphobia (C-Scale) was developed in persons with posttraumatic headache, and item content may not generalize to the broader headache population. ⋯ The CS-HD demonstrated high internal consistency in this sample (α = 0.94). Preliminary convergent validity analyses found CS-HD total scores were positively associated with anxiety (ρ = .37, p = .001) and locus of control (internal, r = .45, p < .001; chance, r = .30, p = .009). This study provides initial evidence supporting the use of the CS-HD to evaluate cogniphobia in people with headache. (PsycINFO Database Record