Adolescents With Migraine: What's Stress Got To Do With It?
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 100
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Correlation between hair cortisol and perceived stress
研究概览
简要总结
The overall objective of this proposal is to better define the relationship between perceived stress, hair cortisol, and migraine in adolescents. This will be done by creating 2 arms of the study: those with migraines (cases) and those without migraines or headaches (controls). Each arm will answer several of the same questionnaires and have hair cortisol samples taken multiple times over the course of 12 weeks.
详细描述
The overall objective of this proposal is to better define the relationship between perceived stress, hair cortisol, and migraine in adolescents. Although adolescents most frequently report stress as their migraine trigger, stress measurement and treatment are usually beyond the scope of routine clinical care. Hair cortisol levels may identify stressed adolescents who need structured stress management, as well as provide objective evidence for the medical community, migraineurs (i.e. individuals who experience migraines), and their families, who may be reluctant to accept stress as a migraine factor. The rationale for this research is that scientific validation of an association between stress and migraine will inform future prevention studies in the headache field and potentially identify a stress biomarker for migraine.
This prospective study will enroll 67 adolescents (aged 13-17) with migraine and 33 adolescents without migraine for 12 weeks with the following aims:
Aim 1: Measure the relationship between hair cortisol concentration and perceived stress in adolescents with and without migraine.
Hypothesis: The association between hair cortisol and perceived stress (3 month averages) will be a positive in both adolescents with and without migraine.
Aim 2: Measure the relationship between migraine frequency with perceived stress and hair cortisol concentration in adolescents with migraine.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Case Control
- 时间视角
- Prospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 13 Years 至 17 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- 未提供
排除标准
- 未提供
结局指标
主要结局
Correlation between hair cortisol and perceived stress
时间窗: 12 weeks
Hair cortisol (a biomarker of stress) will be correlated with perceived stress (as measured by participant-answered questionnaires). We expect a positive correlation.
Correlation between headache frequency, perceived stress, and hair cortisol.
时间窗: 12 weeks
Hair cortisol (a biomarker of stress) will be correlated with perceived stress (as measured by participant-answered questionnaires) and headache frequency (as measured by a headache diary, which will measure how many days per month a child has headaches). We expect a positive correlation.
次要结局
未报告次要终点