The Association of Changes in Pain Acceptance and Headache-Related Disability.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Migraine accounts for substantial suffering and disability. Previous studies show cross-sectional associations between higher pain acceptance and lower headache-related disability in individuals with migraine, but none has evaluated this association longitudinally during migraine treatment.

Purpose

This study evaluated whether changes in pain acceptance were associated with changes in headache-related disability and migraine characteristics in a randomized controlled trial (Women's Health and Migraine) that compared effects of behavioral weight loss (BWL) treatment and migraine education (ME) on headache frequency in women with migraine and overweight/obesity.

Methods

This was a post hoc analysis of 110 adult women with comorbid migraine and overweight/obes

SUBMITTER: Lillis J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6546934 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature