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Table 2 Distribution of the mothers’ alexithymia

From: Alexithymic characteristics in pediatric patients with primary headache: a comparison between migraine and tension-type headache

 

Alexithymic

Borderline

Non-alexithymic

Mothers of M sufferers (n =39)

5 (13 %)

4 (10 %)

30 (77 %)

Mothers of TTH sufferers (n =47)

3 (6 %)

4 (9 %)

40 (85 %)

Mothers of controls (n =32)

2 (6 %)

9 (28 %)

21 (66 %)

  1. Scores based on the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) obtained by the mothers of young people in the two clinical groups and the control group
  2. M migraine, TTH tension-type headache