Healio (7/10, Herpen) reports, “Children and adolescents diagnosed with anxiety, depression or both had greater headache-related disability compared with those without,” investigators concluded in a study that “included more than 8,000 individuals aged six to 17…asked to complete an outpatient neurology visit questionnaire relating to behavioral health, the pedMIDAS scale regarding headache-related disability, as well as a range of headache characteristics.” The findings were presented in a poster at the American Headache Society annual meeting.
Related Links:
— “Anxiety, depression linked to greater headache-related disability in pediatric population,”Robert Herpen, Healio, July 10, 2023