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Illness perception and job satisfaction in patients suffering from migraine headaches: Trait anxiety and depressive symptoms as potential mediators

Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain Dec 18, 2018

Rogante E, et al. - Researchers examined the correlations between illness perception, anxiety, depressive symptoms, and job satisfaction, connected to migraine and its features via analyzing 98 individuals with chronic migraine (CM) treated with OnabotulinumtoxinA from the Regional Referral Headache Centre of Sant'Andrea Hospital in Rome. The patients were made to complete four questionnaires (Brief Illness Perception Quality of Life, Enjoyment and Satisfaction Questionnaire, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Beck Depression Inventory-II) and a socio-anamnestic form. They examined two mediational models in this cross-sectional study. In this first, the noted an indirect mediating effect of trait anxiety on the link between illness perception and job satisfaction. In the second, they found that depressive symptoms mediated the relationship between illness perception and job satisfaction. Findings thus suggested the significance of developing interventions to improve the quality of life of individuals with CM and to increase knowledge about headache and psychological consequences.

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