Anxiety and Depression in Chronic Headache | 1995, Volume 1 - Issue 3

Deniz SELÇUKİ¹, Canan YÜCESAN¹, Nermin MUTLUER¹, Rana TANRIDAĞ², Gönül OZAN²

¹A. Ü. İbni Sina Hastanesi Nöroloji AD
²Psk, Ankara Numune Hastanesi Psikiyatri Bölümü

Keywords: Anxiety, depression, migraine, psychological tests, tension type headache.

Abstract

It was given Beck Depression and State Trait Anxiety Inventories to 23 patients who suffered from tension type and 16 patients who suffered migraine type headaches. The patients were classified by using the diagnostic criteria of the International Headache Society. Significant differences were not found between two headache groups.