This interventional, randomized controlled study seeks to test the effects of a novel emotional awareness and expression intervention against relaxation training or no intervention for college students with chronic headaches. These two interventions are conceptually quite distinct, as the former seeks to activate and process anger, whereas the latter, more commonly used technique, seeks to suppress or avoid it.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
147
Teaches patients to recognize, experience, and express emotions
Teaches patients relaxation training
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Headache frequency and severity
Time frame: baseline, 6-weeks, 6-months
Headache disability
Time frame: baseline, 6-weeks, 6-months
Mood, self-efficacy, stress symptoms
Time frame: baseline and 6-weeks
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