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- Title
Quality of Life in Children and Adolescents With Primary Headache Disorders.
- Authors
AYTA, Semih; ULUDÜZ, Derya; POYRAZ FINDIK, Onur Tuğçe; ÖZGE, Aynur
- Abstract
The frequency and significance of headache in children and adolescent has been drawing more attention nowadays. Similarly, growing body of data is being collected on the quality of life of headache in children and adolescent to which increased attention is paid. Compared with other chronic disorders, headache in children has more negative effect on school performance, as well as emotional status. As for school children, it is reported that these children could not go to school on a regular basis, they do less performance and their careers are negatively affected on the long-term. Accompanying symptoms such as depression, somatization, anxiety also impairs the quality of life. Early identification and treatment of headache will not only improve a health condition, but also will provide advancement in academic and social area as well as psychological development for children with headache.
- Subjects
HEADACHE in children; HEADACHE in adolescence; QUALITY of life measurement; SCHOOL children; PSYCHOLOGY of school children; JUVENILE diseases
- Publication
Journal of Neurological Sciences, 2016, Vol 33, Issue 1, p185
- ISSN
1300-1817
- Publication type
Article