Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil).
Span J Psychol. 2013;16:E34. doi: 10.1017/sjp.2013.11.
The purpose of this study was to compare differences in temperament and emotional and behavioral problems in a community sample of young children who experience headaches to those without such complaints. The whole sample was comprised 75 non-referred, preschool-aged children (3-5 years old), including 22 with headache complaints and 53 without headaches (control group). The children's headache symptoms were assessed with a questionnaire that was given to the mothers. Rothbart's Children's Behavior Questionnaire was used to assess temperament, and the Child Behavior Checklist 1 ½-5 was used to assess emotional and behavioral problems. Compared with the control group, children with headache complaints showed more discomfort, which is the amount of negative affect induced by the sensory qualities of stimulation, including intensity, rate, or complexity of light, movement, sound, texture, or a combination of these modes of stimuli. These children also had higher scores for externalizing and internalizing emotional and behavioral problems compared to children without headaches. These findings show that the preschool-aged children with headaches presented more emotional and behavioral problems than the control group.
本研究旨在比较有头痛症状和无头痛症状的社区样本幼儿在气质和情绪行为问题方面的差异。整个样本包括 75 名非转介的学龄前儿童（3-5 岁），其中 22 名有头痛症状，53 名无头痛（对照组）。儿童的头痛症状通过母亲填写问卷进行评估。罗思巴特儿童行为问卷用于评估气质，儿童行为检查表 1 ½-5 用于评估情绪和行为问题。与对照组相比，有头痛症状的儿童表现出更多的不适，即刺激的感官质量引起的负面情绪的数量，包括光、运动、声音、质地或这些刺激模式的组合的强度、速率或复杂性。与无头痛的儿童相比，这些儿童的外化和内化情绪行为问题得分也更高。这些发现表明，有头痛的学龄前儿童比对照组表现出更多的情绪和行为问题。
