@article{ref1,
title="The psychological profiles of patients with whiplash-associated headache",
journal="Cephalalgia",
year="1998",
author="Wallis, B. J. and Lord, S. M. and Barnsley, L. and Bogduk, N.",
volume="18",
number="2",
pages="101-5; discussion 72",
abstract="Headache often compounds chronic neck pain following whiplash injury. To better understand post-traumatic headache, the SCL-90-R symptom checklist was used to determine the psychological profiles of patients with whiplash-associated headache and of patients with whiplash-associated neck pain without headache. The psychological profiles of these patients were compared with previously published SCL-90-R profiles of patients with post-traumatic and nontraumatic headache, and of the normal population. Patients with whiplash-associated headache were not significantly different from those with other forms of post-traumatic headache or with whiplash-associated neck pain without headache. However, when patients with whiplash-associated headache and patients with nontraumatic headache were compared to normal data, significant differences emerged. Patients with nontraumatic headache exhibited higher scores on all subscales, whereas patients with whiplash-associated headache differed from the normal sample only on somatization, obsessive-compulsive, depression and hostility subscales, and the global severity index. These differences imply that patients with whiplash-associated headache suffer psychological distress secondary to chronic pain and not from tension headache and generalized psychological distress.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0333-1024",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}