Examination of the quality of life of migraineurs and tension headache patients in connection with impulsivity, empathy, depression, and vital exhaustion

Berghammer, Rita; Zsombók, Terézia

doi:10.1556/mental.12.2011.2.4

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“…An example is the Headache Disability Inventory (HDI) (53), where the authors rationally organized items into emotional and functional subscales; in a later study by Holroyd et al the factor analysis of HDI items revealed that all items loaded on a single factor (54). Different studies may find a different underlying structure within the same instrument, as exemplified by the MSQOL, which was found to have three dimensions (avoidance, relationships and feelings) in an American study (16), and four dimensions (affective, social, energetic and life rhythms) in a Hungarian one (17).…”

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“…Comparing the new instrument with previously developed headache-specific measures could have added further evidence about the validity of the instrument and may have yielded important data about its usability. However, due to a lack of validated Hungarian translations of headache-specific QOL instruments, this approach was not possible (the validation study of the Hungarian version of the MSQOL was only published in 2011 (17)). Although the HIT-6 has been validated in Hungarian (55), due to the small sample size (only 35 Hungarian migraineurs diagnosed by their primary care physician were studied) and to the fact that, in a strict sense, HIT-6 is not a QOL instrument, we decided not to use it.…”

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“…Further testing of the instrument revealed three dimensions (avoidance, relationships and feelings) and provided evidence for the calculation of a total score (16). Interestingly, another group described a different structure of the MSQOL with four dimensions (physical, psychical, social and life rhythms) in a study of patients with migraine or tension-type headache (TTH) (17) The MSQOL has been successfully used as an outcome measure in prophylactic drug trials for migraine (18).…”

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The validation of a new comprehensive headache-specific quality of life questionnaire

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Background: Measuring quality of life (QOL) is an important means of assessing the impact of headache. The currently used QOL questionnaires are usually geared toward migraine and focus on a limited number of factors, thus they are not necessarily informative in other headache types. We report the psychometric properties of a new questionnaire, the Comprehensive Headache-related Quality of life Questionnaire (CHQQ) that may be more sensitive to the burden of headache. Patients and methods: A total of 202 patients suffering from migraine (n ¼ 168) or tension-type headache (TTH) (n ¼ 34) completed the CHQQ and SF-36, a generic QOL questionnaire. We assessed the reliability and validity of the CHQQ and its physical, mental and social dimensions. Results: The questionnaire was easy to administer. Reliability was excellent with Cronbach's alpha being 0.913 for the whole instrument (0.814-0.832 for its dimensions). The dimensions and total score showed significant correlations with the patients' headache characteristics (criterion validity), and were also significantly correlated with the SF-36 domains (convergent validity). The total score and dimensions were significantly (p < 0.005) lower in the migraine group than in the TTH group (discriminative validity). Conclusion: In this study the new headache-specific QOL instrument showed adequate psychometric properties.

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