The Role of Psychopathology in Chronic Headache: Cause or Effect?
- 1 May 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain
- Vol. 29 (5) , 295-301
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1526-4610.1989.hed2905295.x
Abstract
SYNOPSIS The psychological test results (BDI, STAI, PSC, and MMPI Scales 1, 2, 3, and 7) of 492 chronic headache patients were subjected to five analyses in order to test two hypotheses about the relation of headache activity and psychopathology/ personality: (H-1), that psychopathology “causes” headache; and (H-2), that headache “causes” psychopathology. No support was found for H-2. There was modest support for H-1.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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