Coping Skills Training in Individuals With Migraine

Hacettepe University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Migraine

Treatments: Other: Coping Skills Training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05809375

HU-ERG-EB-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was planned to investigate the effects of coping skills training on pain, quality of life, disability level, and coping skills in individuals with migraine.

Full description

Migraine is a type of headache that lasts 4-72 hours, and it is characterized by throbbing pain on one side of the head, and recurrent attacks, making routine daily activities and movements difficult. Also, nausea and vomiting may accompany migraine, and sensitivity to both light and sound may increase. The World Health Organization (WHO) lists migraine as the disease that causes the most disability.

Approaches to the treatment of migraine consist of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments. Within the scope of non-pharmacological approaches, it is aimed to increase the coping skills of the individual by using methods such as exercise, stress management, and cognitive behavioral therapy, which include physical, mental, and cognitive interventions. Although these approaches are effective respectively, since migraine affects the whole life of the individual, there is a need for applications in which the approaches are applied with a combined and individual perspective. It has been shown that coping skills training improves both the physical and mental health and well-being of individuals with chronic headaches. It is known to cause a decrease in pain intensity, migraine attacks, and drug use. At the same time, it is aimed to adapt the individual to live efficiently. Despite these positive effects, there is a limited number of studies examining the effect of migraine coping skills training on individuals' disabilities and coping skills. Therefore, within the scope of this study, the effects of client-centered coping skills training on pain, disability, coping skills, and quality of life were examined.

Enrollment: 70 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• have a diagnosis of migraine meeting the International Headache Society diagnostic criteria (ICHD-3 beta International Classification of Headache Disorders),
• to be between the ages of 18-65,
• to have a migraine onset age younger than 50 (migraine onset age shouldn't be 50 years or more because being above is usually a secondary reason)
• to be literate.

Exclusion criteria

• have psychotic disorders, organic brain damage, other types of headaches, a history of traumatic head injuries, neck pain, any pathology causing headaches in the head and neck,
• alcohol or substance use,
• pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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70 participants in 2 patient groups

Coping Skills Training Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Coping skills training (CST) will be given to the intervention group in line with the goals of the International Headache Society. Of the participants included in this study, the ones in the intervention group will be evaluated before and after the intervention.

Treatment:

Other: Coping Skills Training

Control Grup

No Intervention group

Description:

The participants in the control group will be evaluated at the beginning and after four weeks. CST will be given to the control group participants, if they want to, after the final evaluation.