The aim of this observational, cross-sectional study is to investigate the relationship between alexithymia and migraine frequency (considering alexithymia a condition that can influence the severity of the clinical phenotype of migraine, favoring its chronicization), in an analysis adjusted for psychiatric comorbidity (for anxiety and depression, potentially influencing migraine chronicization) and for personalogical factor represented by apathy.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
350
Azienda Sanitaria Locale di Alessandria (ASL AL)
Alessandria, Italy, Italy
Degree of alexithymia
Independent variable measured as a score on the TAS-20 scale
Time frame: In 3 periods of 30 days each (3 months), which make up the 90-day observation time interval
Migraine frequency
Time frame: In 3 periods of 30 days each (3 months), which make up the 90-day observation time interval
Number of "drug days" in patients diagnosed with MOH
Time frame: In 3 periods of 30 days each (3 months), which make up the 90-day observation time interval
Degree of alessithymia in patients diagnosed with MOH
Time frame: In 3 periods of 30 days each (3 months), which make up the 90-day observation time interval
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