Personal Disorders in Local Wars Participants with and Without Headache

Abstract

It's known that personal disorders is very often pathology in local wars participants.

The aim of the current research was to study how the chronic pain syndrome (headache) influence to personality.

Materials:

162 patients (only men) had been investigated. They are divided into two groups according to age and local war in which they had got taking part: first group - the participants of Afghanistan's war (84 men, middle age 46,3±1,38), and second one - the participants of local war in Chechnya (78 men, middle age 32,7±1,54).

We used Leonhard's questionnaire to reveal the character's accentuation and second edition of International headache classification to determine headache type.

Results:

It seems that 113 patients suffer from cephalgia. Another 49 was a control. During the investigation of headache syndrome structure we have shown that most often patients suffer from posttraumatic headache (PH) - 61 men, and tension-type of headache (TTH) - 33 men.

The number of men having got 18 and more in one or several scales of Leonhard's questionnaire is reliable more in the first group both for PH (85,7% and 69,2%) and TTH (85,7% and 68,9%). There were no differences between headache subgroups. But in patients from control group (without headache) the expression of personality changes did not increase during the age (69,6% in first group, 73,1% in second). So chronic pain may be a risk factor for decompensation of personality changes.