TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1998//
TI  - The psychological profiles of patients with whiplash-associated headache
JO  - Cephalalgia
A1  - Wallis, B. J.
A1  - Lord, S. M.
A1  - Barnsley, L.
A1  - Bogduk, N.
SP  - 101
EP  - 5; discussion 72
VL  - 18
IS  - 2
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0333-1024
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -