Mood States of Tension Headaches Patients and Normal Respondents

Abstract

Tension headache is the most common in headaches experienced by general population. It may leads serious mood related issues.The present study, was constructed to investigate tension headache patients and normal respondents on mood states. For this study shall consists 60 participants (30 tension headache patients and 30 normal respondents) belonging to 20- 45 years of age group will be selected on the recommendation of medical practitioner. They were sampled by following purposive sampling procedure..Eight State Questionnaire (8SQ) (M. Kapoor and M. Bhargwa, 1990)were used to collect the data. Appropriate statistical methods were used to analyzing raw data. Results shows significant difference between Tension headache patientsand control group on anxiety and arousal but not found significantdifference on other mood states like depression, regression, fatigue or guilt feeling in both the group. Results are discussed below.