NCT00918671

Medication-overuse Headache: 4 Years Follow up

Treatment of Medication-overuse Headache: 4 Years Follow up

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Norwegian University of Science and Technology · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 22 Years – 74 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

From 1 January 2004 to 31 December 2006 64 individuals with probable medication overuse headache were included in a randomized, 1-year open-labeled, multicentre study to evaluate the effect of early introduction of prophylactic treatment compared to abrupt withdrawal and with a control group (ClinicalTrials.gov number NCT00159588). In this follow-up, randomized patients still alive 4 years after primary inclusion time will be invited to a follow up interview, evaluating the headache complaints and the proportion of recurrent medication overuse.

Detailed description

The participants will be interviewed by telephone or consult the study doctor completing a headache diary for at least 1 month before attending the visit.

Conditions

• Medication Overuse Headache

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	No new specific intervention	No new specific intervention

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-01-01
• Primary completion: 2010-05-01
• Completion: 2010-05-01
• First posted: 2009-06-11
• Last updated: 2020-12-02
• Results posted: 2010-12-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway