Association between personality traits and migraine headache

authors:

avatar Nemat Sotodeh Asl , avatar Elahe Amirahmadi , avatar Raheb Ghorbani ORCID , * , avatar Nooshin Masoudian , avatar Afshin Samaei

Koomesh: Vol.21, issue 1; 46-51
published online: March 01, 2019
article type: Research Article
received: July 01, 2017
accepted: July 01, 2018

how to cite: Sotodeh Asl N, Amirahmadi E, Ghorbani R, Masoudian N, Samaei A. Association between personality traits and migraine headache. koomesh. 2019;21(1):e153036. 

Abstract

Introduction: Migraine is one of the debilitating diseases that can interfere with human function. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between personality and migraine headache. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 98 patients with migraine referred to the Neurosurgical Clinic of Kosar Hospital and Semnan Specialist Neuropsychiatric Clinics in 2017 with a history of at least one year of history of the disease and 100 patients in the control group were evaluated. The instrument was a five-factor neo-personality questionnaire with questions about individual characteristics. Results: The mean± standard deviation of the age of patients with migraine was 32.4 ± 7.8. 53.1% of them were male and 59.2% of the patients were married. The mean score of emotional stability in migraine patients was significantly higher than the control group (p

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