Mothers and Children with Primary Headache: A Psychometric and Psychological Study

Guidetti, Vincenzo; Pagliarini, Marina; Cortesi, Flavia; Formisano, Rita; Cerbo, R.; Buzzi, M. G.; d’Angelo, Massimiliano; Fioravanti, Ana Carolina Monnerat; Agnoli, A.

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“…The in¯uence of migraine was analysed using x 2 . For this purpose the patients were subdivided according to the three diagnoses (migraine with aura, migraine without aura, tension-type headache) and the scores were grouped into three categories (low: 1, 2, 3; normal: 4, 5, 6, 7; high: 8,9,10). The 333 x 2 test gave the following results.…”

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“…These inventories are based on a series of questions to which different answers are possible—selected according to the frequency of subjects' moods. Authors generally tend to find high levels of anxiety, depression and neurotic ‘traits’ in headache sufferers (8–13). The prominence of psychological factors in the clinical profile of headache, particularly in children and adolescents, is such that these factors cannot be regarded as secondary ones within the diagnostic and therapeutic process.…”

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Personality Traits in Childhood and Adolescent Headache

Lanzi

Zambrino²,

Ferrari-Ginevra

et al. 2001

Cephalalgia

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We evaluate personality traits, anxiety and depression in a population of paediatric and adolescent patients, correlating personality characteristics with headache and sociodemographic variables. The clinical features of headache include specific personality traits. We report a clinical study of 57 patients (age 8-18 years), divided up as follows: 12 migraine with aura, 29 migraine without aura and 16 tension-type headache. One of Cattel's tests was administered to every patient; the Children's Depression Inventory test was administered to 53 patients and the Test Anxiety Inventory test to 43 subjects. The scores obtained by every patient in each test were correlated with the characteristics of headache and with sociodemographic data. We found that patients affected by idiopathic headache share some personality traits, mainly emotional rigidity and tendency to repress anger and aggression. These traits do not seem to be correlated with sociodemographic data and the duration of headache: we considered these as characteristic of migrainous patients.

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Personality Traits in Childhood and Adolescent Headache

Lanzi

Zambrino²,

Ferrari-Ginevra

et al. 2001

Cephalalgia

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“…In fact, having a clear picture of the child's personality traits is crucial in evaluating: a) the credibility of the informations he gives (16)(17)(18); b) the role of migraine event in his psychic development (8,9,19); c) the intensity with which the child lives the pain experience (16,19); d) any use the child may make of the symptom (20,21); e) any additional problems (in achievement, behavior, and so forth) that did not emerge in the clinical interview (22,23); and f) the secondary gains that may flow from the migraine event (21,24).…”

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“…This figure shows that mothers-the testees-are present at 95% of all consultations. When we consider that a family history of headache can be found in 70-75% of cases and that the mother is far more often affected than the father (25), she is clearly the most reliable source of information on the child's situation, not least because it is often she who, herself a headache sufferer, is the one to seek consultation for her child (20).…”

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Personality Inventory for Children and Childhood Migraine: A Case-Controlled Study

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The personality inventory for children (PIC), which is similar in structure to the MMPI and hence free from subjective interpretation, is applicable to children from 6 to 16 years of age. We used it in 40 children with common migraine aged 8 to 14 years and in 40 controls comparable in age, sex, and socioeconomic status. Although the migraine subjects did not emerge as globally different from the controls, they presented significantly higher scores on the Somatic concern, Depression, and Anxiety scales, irrespective of sex. These results underline the value of PIC in the diagnostic assessment of childhood migraine.

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“…On the other hand, migraine has been also interpreted as a sort of altered communication by children in order to consolidate some intrafamilial trajectories 74,75…”

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Maternal personality profile of children affected by migraine

Esposito¹,

Roccella²,

Gallai³

et al. 2013

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BackgroundEmpirical evidence of the important role of the family in primary pediatric headache has grown significantly in the last few years, although the interconnections between the dysfunctional process and the family interaction are still unclear. Even though the role of parenting in childhood migraine is well known, no studies about the personality of parents of migraine children have been conducted. The aim of the present study was to assess, using an objective measure, the personality profile of mothers of children affected by migraine without aura (MoA).Materials and methodsA total of 269 mothers of MoA children (153 male, 116 female, aged between 6 and 12 years; mean 8.93 ± 3.57 years) were compared with the findings obtained from a sample of mothers of 587 healthy children (316 male, 271 female, mean age 8.74 ± 3.57 years) randomly selected from schools in the Campania, Umbria, Calabria, and Sicily regions. Each mother filled out the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory – second edition (MMPI-2), widely used to diagnose personality and psychological disorders. The t-test was used to compare age and MMPI-2 clinical basic and content scales between mothers of MoA and typical developing children, and Pearson’s correlation test was used to evaluate the relation between MMPI-2 scores of mothers of MoA children and frequency, intensity, and duration of migraine attacks of their children.ResultsMothers of MoA children showed significantly higher scores in the paranoia and social introversion clinical basic subscales, and in the anxiety, obsessiveness, depression, health concerns, bizarre mentation, cynicism, type A, low self-esteem, work interference, and negative treatment indicator clinical content subscales (P < 0.001 for all variables). Moreover, Pearson’s correlation analysis showed a significant relationship between MoA frequency of children and anxiety (r = 0.4903, P = 0.024) and low self-esteem (r = 0.5130, P = 0.017), while the MoA duration of children was related with hypochondriasis (r = 0.6155, P = 0.003), hysteria (r = 0.6235, P = 0.003), paranoia (r = 0.5102, P = 0.018), psychasthenia (r = 0.4806, P = 0.027), schizophrenia (r = 0.4350, P = 0.049), anxiety (r = 0.4332, P = 0.050), and health concerns (r = 0.7039, P < 0.001) MMPI-2 scores of their mothers.ConclusionThis could be considered a preliminary study that indicates the potential value of maternal personality assessment for better comprehension and clinical management of children affected by migraine, though further studies on the other primary headaches are necessary.

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Mothers and Children with Primary Headache: A Psychometric and Psychological Study

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Personality Traits in Childhood and Adolescent Headache

Personality Traits in Childhood and Adolescent Headache

Personality Inventory for Children and Childhood Migraine: A Case-Controlled Study

Maternal personality profile of children affected by migraine

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