Lifestyle Behaviors and Illness-Related Factors as Predictors of Recurrent Headache in U.S. Adolescents

Walter, Suzy Mascaro

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“…Walter [ 33 ] found that lifestyle behaviours such as skipping meals, water intake, tobacco and alcohol use, and physical inactivity predicted recurrent headache. The SNs in this study found that adolescent inactivity and extensive use of social media were related to headaches, neck, back, and shoulder pain, as well as sleep problems, all of which are confirmed by previous research [ 1 , 10 – 12 ].…”

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How school nurses experience and understand everyday pain among adolescents

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BackgroundPain problems are a rapidly growing health problem found among both children and adolescent, and about 15–30% have reported chronic pain problems. School nurses in Norway meet adolescents with various ailments, including pain. Yet research on how school nurses perceive the pain experienced by adolescents is limited. The aim of the present study was to explore how school nurses explain and experience the everyday pain of adolescents.MethodA qualitative study with an explorative design comprising five focus group interviews. Each group consisted of three to five school nurses. Seventeen female school nurses in five junior high schools in Norway, age range 29–65 years participated. To cover the issues a semi structured interview guide was used. The transcribed text was analysed with qualitative content analysis.ResultsThe experience of school nurses with adolescents’ pain in everyday life is mainly that pain is a social, physical, and psychological phenomenon. School nurses experienced that everyday pain is reflecting: 1) high expectations, 2) difficult relationships and traumatic experiences and 3) an unhealthy lifestyle. School nurses have ambivalent attitudes to medicalisation of pain.ConclusionDespite of a biopsychosocial understanding of pain, the school nurses maintained referral practice of medical examinations, with the results that many adolescents became shuttlecocks in the health system. Although the school nurses´ were sceptical of the tendency towards medicalization in society, it appears that they actually help maintain this tendency.

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“…Approximately 26% of the adolescents experienced recurrent headaches. Overall, smoking regularly defined as at least one cigarette daily for 30 days did not have a significant main effect with headache (OR 1.15, 95% CI 0.97‐1.4) or any age group, although the effects were significant for Hispanics ( P = .0023) with customized odds ratios that were double …”

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“…Overall, smoking regularly defined as at least one cigarette daily for 30 days did not have a significant main effect with headache (OR 1.15, 95% CI 0.97-1.4) or any age group, although the effects were significant for Hispanics (P = .0023) with customized odds ratios that were double. 89 Headache Currents 7 | Headache | 2015 1034 | Headache | July/August 2015 A 2014 study available in abstract only used a selfadministered questionnaire with 1876 students attending 18 secondary schools in 10 cities of Croatia. Migraine prevalence was 12.8%.…”

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Tobacco, Nicotine, and Headache

Taylor

2015

Headache

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Conflicting data support the validity of patient-reported environmental tobacco exposure as a headache trigger. Prospective controlled studies are needed, but unlikely to be performed, to determine the extent that tobacco influences the headache process, in addition to other under-recognized factors. Meanwhile, because of numerous other negative health effects, decreased tobacco exposure should be recommended to headache patients of all ages in hopes of decreasing disability and improving functionality.

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“…27 To avoid this annoyance which generally appears mid-morning and to ensure an energy reserve, it is advisable not to neglect breakfast, which must be complete, combined with coffee, tea or milk, biscuits, rusks, and jam or fruit juices. 28…”

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Nutrition and Phytotherapy: A Winning Combination Against Headache

Ferrara

2019

Int J Med Rev

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Introduction Headache is a pathological form of endemic character that prevents the performance of normal activities, both working and relational. It is difficult to consider both the multiple causes and the various factors competing in this event, due to the lack of objective parameters that allow the clear classification of the various types of headache. 1 Migraine, the scientific term in which headache is indicated, is classified in many categories and sub-categories considering not only the quality, intensity, and cyclicity of pain, but also the way it manifests itself. A primary headache is generally distinguished from hormonal or environmental causes, including migraine, tension headache, and cluster headache; a secondary headache is the main symptom of other disorders, such as allergies, sinusitis, hypertension, osteoarthritis, digestive difficulties; pain that manifests itself following the excessive intake of some substances such as coffee, alcohol, and drugs; pain resulting from a lack of substances such as sugars, or in particular physical conditions, physical exertion, stress, or environmental, excessive cold or altitude. 2-4 The main manifestation is pain that can be localized to the occipital region or diffused to the whole skull, pulsating or strongly intensive, excruciating, monolateral with involvement of the ocular region and the occipital area. 5 Periodicity also represents a characteristic of the headache in addition to different durations of pain. Often, there are well-defined associated symptoms, such as lacrimation and irritation of the conjunctiva, nasal congestion, eye swelling, or pupil contraction, found especially in cluster headaches. The warning symptoms of pathological onset, like irritability, fatigue, and intolerance to noise, are characteristic of migraine that can degenerate even into blurred vision, alteration of sensitivity, and disorders of consciousness found in the most severe cases of migraine with aura. 6 The presence of attacks is variable depending on whether it is an episodic, chronic, or recurrent headache, and the duration may vary from half an hour to 1 hour, on two or three consecutive days. 7 Today there is no specific treatment for headaches, and sufferers often resort to empirical methods or self-medication. The agents available for the treatment of headaches are few and often have side effects such as sedation and nausea, which weaken, even if temporarily, so they cannot be used continuously. 8-10 Food-Headache Relationship The use of proper nutrition to prevent and alleviate the symptoms of headache is a practice the origins of which are very old. Hippocrates knew well the relationship between the ingestion of some substances and the onset of migraine for which many foods can be the main cause due to the

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Lifestyle Behaviors and Illness-Related Factors as Predictors of Recurrent Headache in U.S. Adolescents

Abstract: Providing evidence to clinicians that lifestyle behaviors and illness-related factors are associated with adolescent headache may improve overall headache assessment and may result in a more comprehensive plan of treatment.

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How school nurses experience and understand everyday pain among adolescents

How school nurses experience and understand everyday pain among adolescents

Tobacco, Nicotine, and Headache

Nutrition and Phytotherapy: A Winning Combination Against Headache

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