Exploring the relationship between pain catastrophizing and migraine in youth: A longitudinal clinical cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study explored the relationship between pain catastrophizing and migraine-related outcomes (i.e., migraine-related disability and headache frequency) between visits with a neurologist in a clinical population of children and adolescents with migraine.

Background

Evidence from adult populations suggests that pain catastrophizing, the tendency to magnify the threat value of, and ruminate and feel helpless about, pain may be associated with migraine-related outcomes, but the association in children and adolescents is less clear.

Methods

In this prospective longitudinal clinical cohort study, children and adolescents aged 8-18 years with migraine completed headache questionnaires and a validated measure of pain catastrophizing (Pain Catastrophizing Scale fo

SUBMITTER: Espanioli A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12455422 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature