Non-pharmacological self-management for people living with migraine or tension-type headache: a systematic review including analysis of intervention components.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess the effect of non-pharmacological self-management interventions against usual care, and to explore different components and delivery methods within those interventions PARTICIPANTS: People living with migraine and/or tension-type headache INTERVENTIONS: Non-pharmacological educational or psychological self-management interventions; excluding biofeedback and physical therapy.We assessed the overall effectiveness against usual care on headache frequency, pain intensity, mood, headache-related disability, quality of life and medication consumption in meta-analysis.We also provide preliminary evidence on the effectiveness of intervention components and delivery methods.

Results

We found a small overall effect for the superiority of self-management interventio

SUBMITTER: Probyn K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5629643 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature