Children Exposed to Family Quarrels may Develop Frequent Headaches

According to a new study , quarrels within the family can engage children in a negative manner, leaving them very little free time and also becoming a significant cause of headaches.

The research led by Jennifer Gassmann has revealed that boys who experienced more than one family quarrel per week had a 1.8 times higher risk of developing headaches.

One in Five Brit Teens Suffer Headaches at Least Once a Week
A new UK study has revealed that one in five young teenagers suffers headache at least once a week.

The amount of free time available to them seemed to be even more important.

The findings revealed that boys who only sometimes had time to themselves had a 2.1 times higher risk of developing headaches.

Parents' behaviour when their child complains of headache also seemed to play a major role.

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Research published in the July 15, 2009, online issue of Neurology says that most children who suffer from chronic daily headache may outgrow it

Either positive or negative reinforcement from the parents teaches the child that he or she can gain certain advantages from headache symptoms.

The parents' responses had a particularly strong effect on the frequency of symptoms in girls: reinforcing parental responses raised their risk of recurrent headaches by 25pct.

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A YouGov poll of 2,105 people has found that migraine is the most favored excuse for missing work among Brits.

The study also showed that twice as many girls as boys had their symptoms at least once a week.

The study appears in the current issue of the Deutsches rzteblatt International.

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