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RCT of Structured Brief Intervention for Medication Overuse Headache Versus Business as Usual
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Brief intervention, Business as usual, and 1 other intervention for Medication-overuse Headache and Chronic Headache. Completed, enrolled 123 participants across 2 sites.
Detailed Summary
The investigators will perform a cluster randomised controlled study of Brief intervention (BI) for medication-overuse headache (MOH) versus business as usual. GPs will be trained to perform a structured brief intervention after identifying patients with probable MOH using the severity of dependence scale. The control arm will include patients of GPs who have not been trained in BI. Patients will be recruited by prior short postal screening of patients listed on the GPs patient lists. The hypothesis is that BI will lead to improvement of medication-overuse and chronic headache as compared to no BI. Main outcomes are: * number of medication days per month * number of headache days per month * headache index
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
Structured behavioural Brief intervention given by trained GPs
GPs to treat patient as they have until now based on best established practice
No additional intervention
No additional intervention