Improved Treatment Course for Patients With Migraine and Tension-type Headache (TeII)

Danish Headache Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tension-Type Headache; Migraine

Treatments: Other: Telephone intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05278325

H18008942

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to improve treatment for newly referred patients with migraine and tension-type headache to the Danish Headache Center.

All patients will recieve an electronic questionnaire just before the first visit concerning their current and previous history of headache and headache treatment.

Half of them will enter a special telephone-intervention (TeII) program with two planned phone-calls after 8 and 16 weeks from first visit. The other half of patients will follow the normal follow-up program.

All patients will be seen by a headache specialist after 6 months and will be asked to fill in a follow-up electronic questionnaire.

Enrollment: 187 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Migraine and/or tension-type headache

Exclusion criteria

• Other headache diagnoses, including cluster headache, medication overuse-headache, other secondary headaches, trigeminal neuralgia.
• Included in clinical trials at the DHC.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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187 participants in 2 patient groups

Telephone Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Two planned phone call by health care professionals after 8 and 16 weeks adjusting acute and preventive treatment

Treatment:

Other: Telephone intervention

Business as usual

No Intervention group

Description:

No planned phone calls