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Table 3 Studies of psychiatric comorbidity in patients with chronic daily headache

From: Psychiatric comorbidity in patients with chronic daily headache and migraine: a selective overview including personality traits and suicide risk

Study

Criteria for headache diagnosis

Criteria for psychiatric diagnosis

Mood disorders (%)

Anxiety disorders (%)

Mathew et al. [54]

By their own criteria

MMPI subscore

61

Not assessed

Verri et al. [10]

IHS

DSM IIIR (SCID-P)

Major depressive disorder: 25

dysthymia: 17

GAD: 69.3

Puca et al. [34]

IHS

CIDI-by physicians

45

56

Mitsikostas and Thomas [49]

IHS + mixed type headache

Psychiatric evaluation if HDRS > 16

10 (10 in CTTH, 19 in MOH, 9 in mixed type)

Not assessed

Wang et al. [76]

Adopted criteria of Silberstein et al. [2] + IHS for CTTH

DSM IV (GDS-S)

29

Not assessed

Juang et al. [48]

Adopted criteria of Silberstein et al. [2]

DSM IV (MINI)

Major depressive disorder: 55

dysthymia: 11

GAD: 5

Panic: 27

Holroyd et al. [41]

IHS

BDI

Major depressive disorder: 21

17

Atasoy et al. [75]

ICHD II

DSM IV (SCID-II, SCID-CV)

37.3 (25 in Group C; 51.6 in Group E; 36.2 in Group M)

15.3 (10.7 in Group C; 16.1 in Group E; 17.2 in Group M)

  1. MINI International Neuropsychiatric Interview; SCID the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV; GDS-S Geriatric Depression Scale-short Form; IHS International Headache Society; CTTH Chronic Tension-type Headache; MMPI Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory; HDRS Hamilton Depression Rating Scale; GAD Generalized Anxiety Disorder; BDI Beck Depression Inventory; CIDI Composite International Diagnostic Interview; ICHD-II The international classification of headache disorders, 2nd edition; MOH Medication-Overuse Headache