Functional improvement in children and adolescents with primary headache after an interdisciplinary multimodal therapy program: the DreKiP study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

More than 2/3 of children and adolescents in Germany regularly suffer from headaches. Headache-related limitations in everyday life, school drop-out and educational impairment are common. Structured therapy programs for young headache patients are widely missing.

Methods

One hundred eleven patients with frequent migraine and/or tension type headache were treated in a 15 hour group program in afternoons, parallel with school, parents received 7 hours of therapy. At the beginning of the program (T0), 6 (T1) and 12 months (T2) after completion, data on headache related disability (PedMidas), headache frequency, intensity, and pediatric pain disability score (PPDI) were prospectively collected to investigate the effects of the therapy.

Results

Seventy-five pati

SUBMITTER: Sobe H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9404663 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature