SynthesisCurrent pain and headache reports2015
Headache in school children: is the prevalence increasing?
Synthesis in Current pain and headache reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 47 citations in OpenAlex.
- ADHD is associated with migraine: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2018Pooled it
- Oral health-related quality of life after early extraction of primary second molars in children with congenitally missing second premolars: a randomized controlled trial with matched controls.European journal of orthodontics · 2026Trial
- Efficacy of an educational website on headaches in schoolchildren: A cluster-randomized controlled trial.Headache · 2025Trial
- Potential effect modifiers for treatment with chiropractic manipulation versus sham manipulation for recurrent headaches in children aged 7-14 years: development of and results from a secondary analysis of a randomised clinical trial.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2023Trial
- Psychiatric Co-Morbidities Among Children and Adolescents With Headache: Findings From a Cross-Sectional Study in Bangladesh.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- Neuromodulation in Pediatric Migraine using Repetitive Neuromuscular Magnetic Stimulation: A Feasibility Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Physical Activity and Recurrent Pain in Children and Adolescents in Germany-Results from the MoMo Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Functional improvement in children and adolescents with primary headache after an interdisciplinary multimodal therapy program: the DreKiP study.The journal of headache and pain · 2022Article
- Repetitive Neuromuscular Magnetic Stimulation for Pediatric Headache Disorders: Muscular Effects and Factors Affecting Level of Response.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- [Diagnostics and therapy in children and adolescents with chronic pain : Trends in interventions potentially dangerous to health].Schmerz (Berlin, Germany) · 2021Article
- Parental awareness of headaches among elementary school-aged children in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: A cross-sectional studyz.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2021Article
- Epidemiology of chronic pain in children and adolescents: a protocol for a systematic review update.BMJ open · 2021Article
- Primary headaches during lifespan.The journal of headache and pain · 2019Review
- HEADACHES IN ADOLESCENTS - FREQUENCY, RISK FACTORS AND OTHER HEALTH COMPLAINTS: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY IN CROATIA.Acta clinica Croatica · 2018Article
- Pain could negatively affect school grades - Swedish middle school students with low school grades most affected.PloS one · 2018Article
- Experts' opinion about the primary headache diagnostic criteria of the ICHD-3rd edition beta in children and adolescents.The journal of headache and pain · 2017Review
- [Chronic primary pain disorders in children and adolescents].Schmerz (Berlin, Germany) · 2015Review
- Ambulatory Blood Pressure Profiles in Children With Primary Headache Disorders Despite Normal Office Blood Pressure.Pediatrics international : official journal of the Japan Pediatric SocietyArticle
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Abstract
The objectives of this systematic review were to examine age dependency of headache prevalence in school age children and to assess secular trends of headache prevalence in the last decade, gender and regional differences. A literature search was performed in MEDLINE to identify all prevalence studies in children and adolescents. Five hundred seventy studies were found, of which 37 studies could be included for this review. Headache prevalence in school children increases with their age as demonstrated in cohorts of identical children and cross-sectional surveys covering different age groups of children in one population. Regarding a potential general increase in the prevalence of headache in children and adolescents in the last decade, there are four studies which all show some increase of headache prevalence; however, the degree of increase is varying. Prevalence of headache in girls appears to be higher than in boys. There were no clear regional differences in the prevalence of headache.
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