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Table 5 Quality of life, anxiety and depression in patients with chronic headache with and without probable medication overuse headache

From: Prevalence, management and burden of episodic and chronic headaches—a cross-sectional multicentre study in eight Austrian headache centres

 

CH with pMOH

CH without pMOH

 
 

n

%

n

%

Chi2

p

Quality of life

    

3.0

n.s.

Missing data

3

 

2

   

Very poor

7

10,4

6

6,2

  

Poor

9

13,4

11

11,3

  

Neither good nor poor

21

31,3

29

29,9

  

Good

22

32,8

33

34,0

  

Very good

8

11,9

18

18,6

  

HADS Anxiety

    

2.9

n.s.

Missing data

6

 

3

   

No anxiety

28

40.0

46

46.5

  

Possible anxiety

11

15.7

21

21.2

  

Probable anxiety

25

35.7

29

29.3

  

HADS Depression

    

3.9

n.s.

Missing data

6

 

6

   

No depression

32

45.7

55

55.6

  

Possible depression

12

17.1

18

18.2

  

Probable depression

20

28.6

20

20.2

  
  1. CH, Chronic headache, pMOH, Probable medication overuse headache