Publications by authors named "Alexander J Kuka"
Objective: To evaluate relationships between psychiatric symptoms, acceptance, and migraine-related disability in a sample of people with migraine presenting at a tertiary care headache center.
Background: Migraine is a chronic disease that can be severely disabling. Despite a strong theoretical basis and evidence in other pain conditions, little is known about relationships between acceptance, psychiatric symptoms, and migraine-related disability.
Background: Insomnia is frequently comorbid with chronic migraine, and small trials suggest that cognitive-behavioral treatment of insomnia (CBTi) may reduce migraine frequency. This study endeavored to provide a quantitative synthesis of existing CBTi trials for adults with chronic migraine using Bayesian statistical methods, given their utility in combining prior knowledge with sequentially gathered data.
Methods: Completer analyses of 2 randomized trials comparing CBTi to a sham control intervention (Calhoun and Ford, 2007; Smitherman et al, 2016) were used to quantify the effects of a brief course of treatment on headache frequency.