Headaches in Teens During Pandemic Tied to Depression, Anxiety – Consumer Health News

FRIDAY, July 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Among adolescents, new-onset and worsened complications throughout the COVID-19 pandemic have been related to considerably larger despair and common nervousness scores, in accordance to a research offered on the annual Congress of the European Academy of Neurology, held from June 25 to 28 in Vienna.

Ayşe Nur Özdag Acarli, M.D., from Ermenek State Hospital in Karaman, Turkey, and colleagues examined the lengthy-time period impression of the pandemic on headache in 851 adolescents aged 10 to 18 years. The presence and options of complications, tutorial efficiency, publicity to COVID-19, and publicity to electronics have been explored.

The researchers discovered that headache frequency was 89 p.c (756/851 members). Of these with headache, 10 p.c reported new-onset headache, whereas 27, 3, and 61 p.c reported worsened, improved, and steady headache, respectively. Reductions in college effort and scholar achievement have been extra typically reported for these with worsened and new-onset headache. Compared to these with steady and improved headache, these with worsened and new-onset headache had considerably larger despair and common nervousness scores. Compared to the steady group, the worsened group had considerably larger coronavirus nervousness scores. Significant correlations have been seen for headache frequency and severity with age, despair, and nervousness.

“Although earlier research reported that younger individuals have been having fewer complications due to the closure of colleges in the early weeks and months of COVID-19, this longer-time period research has discovered the stresses and pressures of the pandemic ultimately took their toll,” Acarli mentioned in an announcement.

The research obtained assist from the Global Migraine and Pain Society.

Abstract No. EPO-070

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