Department of Psychology and Health Studies, College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.
PLoS One. 2023 Nov 22;18(11):e0288745. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0288745. eCollection 2023.
With regards to the relationship between mental and physical health conditions, some studies predict increased headache frequency as a result of exposure to stressful situations. Thus, the purpose of our study was to investigate whether headache characteristics among a sample of university students (N = 234) correlated with fear of COVID-19, stress and quality of life vis-à-vis the pandemic. We found statistically significant positive correlations between headache frequency and both general stress and quality of life. Further, results from a multiple regression analysis suggested that fear of COVID-19 did not account for incremental variance in headache intensity. Explanations for our key findings, limitations of our study, and future directions for post pandemic studies on headache experience are outlined.
关于心理健康和身体健康状况之间的关系，一些研究预测，由于暴露于压力环境中，头痛的频率会增加。因此，我们的研究目的是调查在大学生样本中（N=234），头痛特征是否与对 COVID-19 的恐惧、压力和大流行期间的生活质量有关。我们发现，头痛频率与一般压力和生活质量之间存在显著的正相关。此外，多元回归分析的结果表明，对 COVID-19 的恐惧并不能解释头痛强度的增量差异。我们对主要发现的解释、研究的局限性以及大流行后头痛经历研究的未来方向进行了概述。
