چکیده:
Objective: Headache is one of the common complaints of referral patients. The prevalence of symptoms of depression and anxiety in patients with headache is significant. The previous researches suggested the role of self-efficacy of pain in modifying psychological symptoms and improving clinical outcomes. The current study aimed at investigating the role of self-efficacy beliefs of pain in psychiatric symptoms and clinical outcomes of patients with chronic headache.
Methods: The current descriptive cross-sectional study was performed on 106 patients with chronic primary headache referred to neurology clinics of Guilan University of Medical Sciences from September 2016 to March 2017. Patients responded to questions of pain self-efficacy beliefs scales, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), and Visual Analogue Scale (VAS). Data were analyzed by multivariate hierarchical regression.
Results: The results of Pearson correlation coefficient showed a reverse and significant relationship between pain self-efficacy beliefs and pain severity (r=-0.25, P=0.009). In the regression analysis, after controlling demographic variables, self-efficacy beliefs were able to predict the pain severity scale (F=4.570, P=0.035) and anxiety (F=4.414, P=0.038). There was also a significant non-linear quadratic correlation between the severity of pain with headache frequency (F=3.377, P=0.038).
Conclusion: Self-efficacy beliefs are more correlated with the reduction of the severity of pain in chronic headache and can predict it. It seems that these types of beliefs can play a protective role against anxiety and headache frequency in patients with chronic headache.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Research Paper: The Role of Self-efficacy Beliefs in Psychological Symptoms and Clinical Outcomes of Primary Chronic Headache Alia Saberi1 /, Sajjad Rezaei2,3*/, Fatemeh Shabani4, Samaneh Ghorbani Shirkouhi3 1.
The Role of Self-efficacy Beliefs in Psychologi-cal Symptoms and Clinical Outcomes of Primary Chronic Headache.
The current study aimed at investigating the role of self-efficacy beliefs of pain in psychiatric symptoms and clinical outcomes of patients with chronic headache.
com 175 July 2019, Volume 7, Number 3 Highlights • Self-efficacy beliefs can reduce the severity of pain in chronic headache and also predict it.
Self-efficacy is one of the psychological factors with modifying effects on the level of pain experienced by the individual (Rezaei, Afsharnejad, Moosavi, Youse-fzadeh, Soltani, 2012).
Previous studies show that pain self-efficacy can have a role in reducing pain, anxiety, depression and other complications associated with chronic disorders (Börs-bo, Gerdle, Peolsson, 2010; French et al.
Exclusion criteria: Unwillingness to participate in study, poor cooperation, inability to respond to the ex- {مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} July 2019, Volume 7, Number 3 aminer’s questions due to the severity of pain, acute headache, secondary chronic headaches as diagnosed by the IHS criteria and a neurologist.
, (2000) (Marks Allegrante, 2005) studied 329 patients seeking treatment for headache and found an inverse relationship between anxiety and pain self-efficacy or management.
According to these limitations, future studies are recommended to use trial or interventional designs to test the hypothesis of whether teaching pain self-efficacy reduces the psychological symptoms and improves clini-cal outcomes of headache.