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Clinical Trials/NCT06631222
NCT06631222
Recruiting
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Effect of Cognitive Behaviour Approach on Subjects With Smartphone Addiction

Hatem Mostafa1 site in 1 country40 target enrollmentJanuary 29, 2025

Overview

Phase
Not Applicable
Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
Tension Type Headache
Sponsor
Hatem Mostafa
Enrollment
40
Locations
1
Primary Endpoint
pressure algometer
Status
Recruiting
Last Updated
5 months ago

Overview

Brief Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if cognitive behavioral approach works to treat tension type headache in smartphone addiction in adults. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Is there an effect of adding cognitive behavior approach to physical therapy (manual therapy, corrective exercise therapy) on pain pressure threshold, forward head posture and headache intensity in smartphone addiction patients with tension-type headache? Researchers will compare adding cognitive behavior approach to physical therapy (manual therapy, corrective exercise therapy) to see if cognitive behavior approach works to treat tension type headache in smartphone addiction than physical therapy alone.

Participants will:

All participants will receive twelve treatment sessions (twice per week) in a 6 weeks period with a rest period of 48 to 72 hour between them.

Registry
clinicaltrials.gov
Start Date
January 29, 2025
End Date
January 1, 2026
Last Updated
5 months ago
Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Parallel
Sex
All

Investigators

Sponsor
Hatem Mostafa
Responsible Party
Sponsor Investigator
Principal Investigator

Hatem Mostafa

assistant lecturer of physical therapy

Badr University

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • Subjects were those diagnosed with tension type headache by neurologists based on the criteria of the International Headache Society.
  • age between 19-
  • International Headache Society diagnostic criteria of tension type headaches:
  • Frequent ETTH or CTTH diagnosed, in both cases more than three months.
  • Episodes of pain from 30 minutes to 7 days Fulfil 2 or more of the following characteristics:
  • Bilateral location of pain.
  • Non-pulsatile pain pressure.
  • Pain mild to moderate.
  • The headache does not increase with physical activity.
  • The headache may be associated with pericranial tenderness.

Exclusion Criteria

  • rheumatoid arthritis.
  • suspected malignancy.
  • pregnancy.
  • if they had received manual therapy treatment in the 2 months before enrolment into the study.
  • Patients with infrequent episodic tension type headache, or with probable frequent and infrequent forms of tension type headache or other concomitant headache.
  • They can never have vomiting or headache episodes during the treatment.
  • Episodic tension type headache patients may experience very occasionally photophobia or phonophobia during their episodes of headache.
  • Chronic tension type headache patients may experience very occasionally photophobia, phonophobia or mild nausea during headache episodes.
  • Pain aggravated by movement of the head.
  • Metabolic or musculoskeletal problems with similar headache symptoms.

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

pressure algometer

Time Frame: from enrollment to nthe end of treatment at 6 weeks

this device is used to describe the sensitivity of the trigger points found in cervical region

Secondary Outcomes

  • measurement of forward head posture(from enrollment to nthe end of treatment at 6 weeks)
  • Headache impact test(from enrollment to nthe end of treatment at 6 weeks)
  • The smartphone addiction scale short version(from enrollment to nthe end of treatment at 6 weeks)

Study Sites (1)

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