Migren ve Gerilim Başağrısında Anksiyete, Depresyon ve Nörotik Eğilim Düzeyleri
Zeynep Kocabaş, Arif Çelebi
Article No:
3
Article Type :
Research
This study investigates the levels of anxiety, depression and neurotic tendencies in migraine and tension headache. The study was conducted over a group of female nursing students (between 14 and 18) using international standart diagnostic and classificatin criteria. Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale, Zung Depression Scale and Cornell Index Tests were applied to the patients with migraine (n=45), with tension headache (n=51) and to normal controls (n=50). In migraine and the tension headache group, anxiety, depression and neurotic tendencies esere found high compared to the control group. Anxiety, depression and neurotic tendencies were found higher in migraine when compared to the tension headache. The results were discussed by —yeviewing the literature.
Keywords :
Migraine, tension type headache, anxiety, depression
Dusunen Adam : The Journal of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences :
1997;10:17-21
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