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Guidelines for Trials of Behavioral Treatments for Recurrent Headache: Purpose, Process, and Product
Author(s) -
Penzien Donald B.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
headache: the journal of head and face pain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.14
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1526-4610
pISSN - 0017-8748
DOI - 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2005.4502001.x
Subject(s) - center (category theory) , citation , product (mathematics) , psychology , library science , medicine , computer science , chemistry , geometry , mathematics , crystallography
The behavioral clinical trials guidelines presented in this supplement1 were developed to enhance the quality and consistency of research evaluating behav- ioral treatments for primary headache disorders. De- veloped under the auspices of the American Headache Society (AHS), these guidelines are complementary to and modeled after guidelines published by the International Headache Society to address research methodology apropos to drug trials for migraine,2 tension-type headache,3 and cluster headache.4 Ex- plicit guidelines for evaluating behavioral headache therapies are needed as the optimal methodology for behavioral (and other nonpharmacologic) trials neces- sarily differs from the preferred methodology for drug trials. In addition, trials comparing and integrating drug and behavioral therapies present methodological challenges not addressed by guidelines for pharmaco- logic research. the behavioral trial guidelines. Emerging from discus- sions and debates that took place during the guideline development, the thesis of each article in the series was judged to be a key methodological issue meriting further articulation and development expressly for headache investigators.5-21 The series is arranged in two sections, with the first examining headache research issues of general relevance7-12 and the sub-