Psychological Factors in Adolescent Headache

Abstract

Seventy high school students between 16 and 18 years of age reporting a headache frequency of once a week or more were compared with a headache-free control group and were studied by questionnaires for psychosocial, health-behavior, and medical problems at the Dept of Child and Youth Psychiatry, University Hospital of Uppsala, Sweden.

Keywords

• adolescent headache
• migraine headaches
• nervous problems