Symptoms associated with headache in youth.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the underlying relationships between a broad range of headache-associated symptoms and how they relate to headache burden.

Background

Symptoms associated with head pain inform classification of headache disorders. However, many headache-associated symptoms are not included in the diagnostic criteria, which is largely based on expert opinion. Large symptom databases can assess headache-associated symptoms irrespective of pre-existing diagnostic categories.

Methods

We conducted a large single-center cross-sectional study on youth (6-17 years old) assessing patient-reported outpatient headache questionnaires between June 2017 and February 2022. Multiple correspondence analysis, an exploratory factor analysis, was applied to 13 headache-associated s

SUBMITTER: Patterson Gentile C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10852031 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature