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Table 2 Subject Demographics. Average headache pain = ranges from 1 to 10 (1 = mild headache to 10 = worst headache imaginable) BDI=Beck Depression Inventory, mean raw score; SCAT-3 = Sport concussion assessment tool (SCAT-5), Symptom Evaluation, total score; RAVLT delayed recall = Ray Auditory Verbal learning test, delayed recall, z-score; Days post-mTBI = number of days between the date of mild traumatic brain injury and the date of the baseline visit, on average, patients with PTH were seen two-weeks post-concussion (14.8 days, range 4–42 days); HC = healthy controls; n/a = not applicable; PTH=Post-traumatic Headache

From: Altered speech patterns in subjects with post-traumatic headache due to mild traumatic brain injury

 

PTH (n = 19)

HC (n = 31)

PTH vs HC

p-value

Age, mean (SD)

42.5 (13.7)

38.7 (12.5)

0.32

Sex female/male

13/6

18/13

0.55

BDI mean (SD)

7.63 (5.6)

2.06 (3.5)

0.001*

Symptom Evaluation; total

28.47 (26.7)

1.97 (4.0)

< 0.001

RAVLT delayed recall

−.90 (1.1)

.15 (1.2)

0.004

Average headache pain (1–10)

4.53 (2.1)

n/a

n/a

Days post mTBI

14.8 (32.2)

n/a

n/a

  1. *Although there were statistically significant group differences between the BDI raw scores, the average raw scores of each group was in the ‘normal’, i.e. non-depressed range, according to the BDI scoring criteria