The relationship between headache and religious attendance (the Nord-Trøndelag health study- HUNT)

The Journal of Headache and Pain

Research Article

John-Anker Zwart¹  Lars Bendtsen²  Mikko Kallela³  Ville Artto³  Katarina Laurell⁴  Torgeir Sørensen⁵  Mattias Linde⁶  Knut Hagen⁶  Erling Tronvik⁷ 

[1] Department of Neurology and FORMI, Oslo University Hospital and University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway;Department of Neurology, Danish Headache Centre, Glostrup Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark;University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark;Department of Neurology, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland;Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Neuroscience, Östersund Hospital, Östersund, Sweden;Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;MF Norwegian School of Theology, Oslo, Norway;Norwegian National Headache Centre, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway;Department of Neurosciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway;Norwegian National Headache Centre, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway;Department of Neurosciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway;Department of Neurology, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway;

关键词: Epidemiology;    Religion;    Spirituality;    Headache;    Migraine;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1129-2377-15-1

 received in 2013-11-25, accepted in 2013-12-27,  发布年份 2014

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundReligious belief can be used as a pain coping strategy. Our purpose was to evaluate the relationship between headache and religious activity using prospective data from a large population-based study.MethodsThis longitudinal cohort study used data from two consecutive surveys in the Nord-Trøndelag Health Survey (HUNT 2 and 3) performed in 1995–1997; and 2006–2008. Among the 51,383 participants aged ≥ 20 years who answered headache questions at baseline, 41,766 were eligible approximately 11 years later. Of these, 25,177 (60%) completed the question in HUNT 3 regarding religious activity. Frequent religious attendees (fRA) (used as a marker of stronger religious belief than average) were defined as those who had been to church/prayer house at least once monthly during the last six months.ResultsIn the multivariate analyses, adjusting for known potential confounders, individuals with headache 1–14 days/month in HUNT 2 were more likely to be fRA 11 years later than headache-free individuals. Migraine at baseline predisposed more strongly to fRA at follow-up (OR = 1.25; 95% CI 1.19-1.40) than did non-migrainous headache (OR = 1.13; 95% 1.04-1.23). The odds of being fRA was 48% increased (OR 1.48; 95% 1.19-1.83) among those with migraine 7–14 days/month at baseline compared to subjects without headache. In contrast, headache status at baseline did not influence the odds of being frequent visitors of concerts, cinema and/or theatre at follow-up 11 years later.ConclusionsIn this prospective study, headache, in particular migraine, at baseline slightly increased the odds of being fRA 11 years later.

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© Tronvik et al.; licensee Springer. 2014. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.