Head Awareness in Chronic Migraine Patients
CompletedNCT06857383
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
Research indicates that different beliefs about the nature of back problems and their future consequences direct behaviors that may cause falsely stimulated neuroplastic changes. The central nervous system can help relieve ongoing pain by regulating nociceptive activity. For this purpose, "The Fremantle Back Awareness Questionnaire" was developed to evaluate the perceptual awareness status of the back. In individuals with chronic pain, changes in body perception can be explained by the cortical reorganization that occurs in these individuals. Compared to healthy individuals, cortical thickness is reduced in the brain regions that process pain in chronic migraine patients. On the other hand, it is stated that these cortical structural changes can be reversed and recovery can be achieved by treating headache and related symptoms in chronic migraine patients. Individuals try to continue their daily lives with impaired body awareness due to pain. Decreased awareness has been studied in many neck, back and knee pain studies in the literature with Fremantle Awareness Questionnaires in different societies. In these studies, the awareness of individuals experiencing pain was found to be low and it was found that neck, waist or knee awareness was related to pain intensity, pain catastrophizing, disability, quality of life, anxiety, depression and kinesiophobia. It was even determined that awareness increased with treatments. Although reversible structural changes in the cortical regions of chronic migraine patients have been investigated with radiological imaging methods and are still being investigated, not every patient can be evaluated with radiological imaging in clinics due to cost and time problems. Therefore, a fast, practical and understandable questionnaire evaluation can benefit clinicians. When the literature is examined, there is no study evaluating the perceptual level and nociceptive awareness in chronic migraine headache. Conducting a validity and reliability …
Study details
- Official title
- Assessment of Head Awareness in Chronic Migraine Patients With the Fremantle Headache Awareness Questionnaire: Turkish Version, Validity and Reliability Study
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Fremantle Headache Awareness Questionnaire
- Sponsor
- Bozok University
- Start date
- 2025-01-02
- Primary completion
- 2025-05-28
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 70 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Cyprus, Turkey (Türkiye)
- Total sites listed
- 13
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Being diagnosed with chronic migraine * Being between the ages of 18-70, * Being able to read, speak, understand and write Turkish in order to understand the items/questions of the surveys and scales and to give correct answers. Exclusion Criteria: * Having any headache diagnosis other than chronic migraine, * Having a history of any systemic disease such as malignant, inflammatory, acute fracture/infection, surgery, neurological, psychological, rheumatological. * Having neck or back pain
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06857383