Migraine prevalence, alexithymia, and post-traumatic stress disorder among medical students in Turkey
| Autor: | İlteriş Ahmet Şentürk, Ziynet Cinar, Önder Kavakcı, Murat Semiz, Ayfer Dikici, Suat Topaktaş, Hatice Balaban |
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| Přispěvatelé: | [Balaban, Hatice -- Senturk, Ilteris Ahmet -- Topaktas, Suat] Cumhuriyet Univ, Dept Neurol, Fac Med, TR-58140 Sivas, Turkey -- [Semiz, Murat -- Kavakci, Onder -- Dikici, Ayfer] Cumhuriyet Univ, Dept Psychiat, Fac Med, TR-58140 Sivas, Turkey -- [Cinar, Ziynet] Cumhuriyet Univ, Dept Biostat, Fac Med, TR-58140 Sivas, Turkey |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Předmět: |
Alexithymia
Adult Male medicine.medical_specialty Students Medical Adolescent Turkey Original media_common.quotation_subject Migraine Disorders Clinical Neurology Comorbidity law.invention Stress Disorders Post-Traumatic Toronto Alexithymia Scale Disability Evaluation Young Adult Randomized controlled trial law Prevalence Medicine Personality Humans Affective Symptoms Psychiatry Migraine media_common Pain Measurement Psychiatric Status Rating Scales medicine.diagnostic_test Post-traumatic stress disorder business.industry Traumatic stress General Medicine medicine.disease Medical students Psychological evaluation Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Female Neurology (clinical) business Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Headache and Pain |
| ISSN: | 1129-2377 1129-2369 |
| Popis: | WOS: 000307276700004 PubMed ID: 22535148 The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of migraine, alexithymia, and post-traumatic stress disorder among medical students at Cumhuriyet University of Sivas in Turkey. A total of 250 medical students participated in this study and answered the questionnaires. The study was conducted in three stages: the self-questionnaire, the neurological evaluation, and the psychiatric evaluation. In the first stage, the subjects completed a questionnaire to assess migraine symptoms and completed the three-item Identification of Migraine Questionnaire, the Toronto Alexithymia Scale, and the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist-Civilian Version Scale. The subjects who reported having a migraine underwent a detailed neurological evaluation conducted by a neurologist to confirm the diagnosis. In the final stage, the subjects with a migraine completed a psychiatric examination using the structured clinical interview for DSM-IV-R Axis I. The actual prevalence of migraine among these medical students was 12.6 %. The students with a migraine were diagnosed with alexithymia and post-traumatic stress disorder more frequently than those without migraine. The Migraine Disability Assessment Scale scores correlated with the post-traumatic stress disorder scores. The results of this study indicate that migraine was highly prevalent among medical students in Turkey and was associated with the alexithymic personality trait and comorbid psychiatric disorders including post-traumatic stress disorder. Treatment strategies must be developed to manage these comorbidities. |
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