The purpose of this study is to describe midfacial segment pain phenotype, burden and comorbidities in a multicentre and multidisciplinary setting. The ultimate goal is a comprehensive description of this type of pain allowing for its implementation in future classifications. This cross-sectional study is designed to describe midfacial segment pain in a clinical setting. Patients from rhinologic, headache and facial pain or oral medicine/dentistry secondary care centres will be recruited during a one year period. Individuals with other facial pain according to current classification such as sinonasal disorders, neoplasms, local infections, history of significant trauma associated with pain onset will be excluded. Data will be collected through a structured questionnaire covering pain characteristics, coexisting diagnoses, pain-related burden and consequences, physical examination and paranasal sinuses imaging.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/25158163241235642
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
200
Department of Otolaryngology, University of Malta
Msida, Malta
Athleticomed - Pain&Headache Treatment Centre
Bydgoszcz, Poland
Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery and Laryngological Oncology
Bydgoszcz, Poland
Department of Neurology, Jagiellonian University Medical College
Krakow, Poland
Świat Zdrowia
Orzyny, Poland
Department of Neurology and Restorative Medicine, Health Institute dr Boczarska-Jedynak
Oświęcim, Poland
4. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, National Institute of Medicine of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration
Warsaw, Poland
5. Department of Otolaryngology, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education
Warsaw, Poland
Department of Experimental Dentistry, Wroclaw Medical University
Wroclaw, Poland
Department of Neurology, Wroclaw Medical University
Wroclaw, Poland
...and 3 more locations
Pain characteristics
Following pain features will be assessed with structured questionnaire: location, frequency, duration, quality, intensity, accompanying symptoms, provoking/relieving factors.
Time frame: 1 month prior to study visit.
Coexisting diagnoses
Other headache/pain-related disorders (assessed with structured questionnaire).
Time frame: 1 month prior to study visit.
Pain-related burden and consequences
Medications used and their efficacy, consultations in the past, surgical procedures in the past, cost of treatment (assessed with structured questionnaire).
Time frame: 1 month prior to study visit.
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