Effectiveness of the telephonic-case-management for treatment of headache. A pilot study.

: Chronic or intermittent headache affects the patients' quality of life, and has direct and indirect social costs. Several chronic illnesses are already treated through telephone counseling, however there is poor evidence in literature about headache treatment via telenursing, and it is not clear which role could the nurse play in this specific field. The study was carried out at the headache centre of "G. D'Annunzio" University - Chieti, and involved 62 patients, half of them were assigned to receive specialized telenursing in addiction to the standard care bean. During the 13 weeks of follow up the headache characteristics were regularly assessed (frequency and intensity). Pain assessment was performed using the VAS, and quality of life was assessed at baseline and at the end of the follow up using the SF-12 standard V1 questionnaire. The differences between the two groups are statistically significant during the last 5 week of follow up, (8th -12th; 0.002

Keywords:

• Pain assessment
• case management
• Telephone counseling
• Addiction
• Telenursing
• Well-being
• Physical therapy
• Quality of life
• Medicine
• Health care

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