TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychophysiological responses of female headache sufferers and controls using a picture-viewing paradigm
AU - Ong, Jason C.
AU - Gramling, Sandra E.
AU - Vrana, Scott R.
AU - Nicholson, Robert A.
AU - Buenaver, Luis F.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was completed by the first author under the supervision of the second author as part of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree at Virginia Commonwealth University. This study was funded in part by a Southern Regional Education Board Dissertation Year Fellowship awarded to the first author. Portions of the data from this study were presented at the annual meeting for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Washington, D.C., November 2005. The authors would like to thank Marjorie Pace, Martha Milne, Nikki Wilcox, Sandy Johnson, and Kim Ryan, for their assistance with data collection and management during this study.
PY - 2006/12
Y1 - 2006/12
N2 - Despite the advancement of the biopsychosocial model, the interrelationship between behavioral, emotional, and physiological factors in tension-type headache (TTH) remains unclear. Using a picture-viewing paradigm, the present study investigated differences between females with TTH and controls on physiological reactivity, affective valence and arousal, and oral motor habits. In addition, the concordance between EMG activity and self-reported oral habits (i.e., proprioceptive awareness) and EMG activity and self-reported affect (i.e., affective coherence) were measured using within-subject correlations per individual and then compared between groups. Data were analyzed for 27 TTH sufferers and 27 controls who completed a questionnaire packet followed by a psychophysiological assessment consisting of 3 phases (adaptation, scheduled-viewing, recovery) with EMG activity recorded continuously at 3 sites (frontalis, corrugator, zygomatic). During the scheduled-viewing phase, participants were presented with 24 pictures designed to elicit positive, neutral, and negative affect. Compared to controls, the headache group reported elevations in pain, oral habits, and stress across the 3 phases of the assessment, along with elevations in arousal while viewing the pictures. There were no significant differences between the groups in EMG activity while viewing the pictures. Analyses on concordance revealed partial evidence for poor proprioceptive awareness and affective coherence among the headache group, although the correlations were not significantly different than the control group. These findings suggest that arousal, stress perception, and oral habits may play a role in the pathophysiology of TTH and that within-subject designs should be tested further against group designs when measuring psychophysiological concordance.
AB - Despite the advancement of the biopsychosocial model, the interrelationship between behavioral, emotional, and physiological factors in tension-type headache (TTH) remains unclear. Using a picture-viewing paradigm, the present study investigated differences between females with TTH and controls on physiological reactivity, affective valence and arousal, and oral motor habits. In addition, the concordance between EMG activity and self-reported oral habits (i.e., proprioceptive awareness) and EMG activity and self-reported affect (i.e., affective coherence) were measured using within-subject correlations per individual and then compared between groups. Data were analyzed for 27 TTH sufferers and 27 controls who completed a questionnaire packet followed by a psychophysiological assessment consisting of 3 phases (adaptation, scheduled-viewing, recovery) with EMG activity recorded continuously at 3 sites (frontalis, corrugator, zygomatic). During the scheduled-viewing phase, participants were presented with 24 pictures designed to elicit positive, neutral, and negative affect. Compared to controls, the headache group reported elevations in pain, oral habits, and stress across the 3 phases of the assessment, along with elevations in arousal while viewing the pictures. There were no significant differences between the groups in EMG activity while viewing the pictures. Analyses on concordance revealed partial evidence for poor proprioceptive awareness and affective coherence among the headache group, although the correlations were not significantly different than the control group. These findings suggest that arousal, stress perception, and oral habits may play a role in the pathophysiology of TTH and that within-subject designs should be tested further against group designs when measuring psychophysiological concordance.
KW - Affect
KW - Arousal
KW - Awareness
KW - EMG
KW - Headache
KW - Psychophysiology
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U2 - 10.1007/s10484-006-9026-2
DO - 10.1007/s10484-006-9026-2
M3 - Article
C2 - 17094032
AN - SCOPUS:33845437053
VL - 31
SP - 295
EP - 313
JO - Applied Psychophysiology Biofeedback
JF - Applied Psychophysiology Biofeedback
SN - 1090-0586
IS - 4
ER -