Active and passive coping preferences in primary headaches: An Indian study

Pages: 954-957
Preeti Gupta (Clinical Psychologist, Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi, Jharkhand)
Archana Shukla (Professor and Director, AIBAS and Dean Faculty of Arts, Amity University, Manesar, Haryana)
Surjit Prasad (Senior Resident, RINPAS, Kanke, Ranchi, Jharkhand)

Literature has reported geographical variances and a number of affective and cognitive factors that play a critical role in the experience and management of pain sensations and also in the development and maintenance of stress or stress related disorders like headaches. Finding out the effective coping is a requisite in management. Present paper tends to identify the differences in passive-active as well as affective-cognitive coping techniques employed in tension type headache (TTH) and in migraine in Indian context. For this 30 patients with TTH and 30 patients with migraine diagnosed by consultant psychiatrists were purposively selected from private and outpatient clinics of UP, India. They were assessed on pain coping inventory and significant differences were found among various coping styles adopted by each group. Findings also suggest a need for an individual module for strengthening active coping with an addition of cognitive therapy techniques to behavioural therapy.