Studio TIARA: Alessitimia Ed Emicrania Cronica

Azienda Sanitaria Locale di Alessandria

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Alexithymia; Migraine

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06891053

Asl22.Neuro.22.01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this observational, cross-sectional study is to investigate the relationship between alexithymia and migraine frequency (considering alexithymia a condition that can influence the severity of the clinical phenotype of migraine, favoring its chronicization), in an analysis adjusted for psychiatric comorbidity (for anxiety and depression, potentially influencing migraine chronicization) and for personalogical factor represented by apathy.

Enrollment: 350 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 12 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of episodic migraine with or without aura, chronic migraine and/or MOH according to ICHD-3 2018 criteria;
• Patients aged 12-65 years;
• Female patients

Exclusion criteria

• Ongoing major depressive episode;
• Comorbidities for major internal diseases (hepatopathy, nephropathy, heart failure, etc.);
• Alcohol or substance abuse disorder (eoin, cocaine, cannabis, hallucinogens);
• Language barrier;
• Low cultural/cognitive level;
• No informed consent.

Trial design

350 participants in 1 patient group

Diagnosis of episodic migraine without or with aura, chronic migraine, and/or MOH

Description:

Female patients, aged 12-65 years, diagnosed with episodic migraine without or with aura, chronic migraine, and/or MOH according to the criteria of ICHD-3 2018