[Gender-specific results of the Dresden children and adolescents headache program DreKiP].

ABSTRACT:

Background

Girls and women are more frequently affected by headache than boys and men. The influence of gender on the effectiveness of headache therapies has so far been hardly investigated. We examined gender differences in the outpatient multimodal Dresden Child and Adolescent Headache Program DreKiP.

Methods

We treated 140 patients with primary headache in a 15-hour structured group program. At baseline (T0) and six (T1) and twelve months (T2) after the end of the program, data on headache-related limitation of daily activities (PedMIDAS) as well as headache frequency, intensity, and pain-related disability (P-PDI) were collected. Retrospectively, these data were analyzed separately for girls and boys.

Results

For 91 patients (9-19 years, median = 15; 71.4 % female

SUBMITTER: Zaranek L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10959813 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature