Migraine has been increasingly considered a multifactorial disorder, acknowledging predisposing, precipitating, perpetuating, and protective factors. In this framework, when assessing and managing migraine, several patients’ features and life aspects should be considered including, but not limited to, migraine phenotype and pattern, trigger factors, migraine-coping strategies, migraine-associated disability and impairment, impact on life, lifestyle, patients’ literacy, and behavioural and psychological traits. Therefore, considering the great variety and complexity of factors that could influence migraine patterns, the availability of instruments to assess the contribution of such factors in different subjects could be a first step to developing targeted management strategies. Indeed, in the limelight of the contemporary model of ‘precision medicine’, it is fundamental to have instruments that allow for reliability and easily investigate the role of such factors. However, a shared strategy to document possible migraine-influencing factors is still missing. In the era of technological advances, near-endless possibilities could be available for the development of new or revised instruments to provide individually targeted migraine assessment and care.
This Research Topic aims to provide the scientific community with new instruments and methods to assess these aspects and their influence on migraine and to develop new and individually targeted assessment and management strategies for migraine. Particular interest is reserved for instruments that are developed or administered through the use of technology and their comparison with historical instruments used in migraine assessment.
We, therefore, welcome submissions of the following to this Research Topic:
Epidemiological and clinical-based studies adopting new instruments to investigate i) clinical, demographic, or psychological factors possibly influencing migraine evolution and pattern; ii) migraine burden on daily life.
Clinical trials or clinic-based studies on interventions aimed at improving factors impacting migraine and detected through new instruments.
Development, testing, and utilization of technology-based instruments are both aimed at investigating the role of migraine-influencing factors and at improving such factors.
Migraine has been increasingly considered a multifactorial disorder, acknowledging predisposing, precipitating, perpetuating, and protective factors. In this framework, when assessing and managing migraine, several patients’ features and life aspects should be considered including, but not limited to, migraine phenotype and pattern, trigger factors, migraine-coping strategies, migraine-associated disability and impairment, impact on life, lifestyle, patients’ literacy, and behavioural and psychological traits. Therefore, considering the great variety and complexity of factors that could influence migraine patterns, the availability of instruments to assess the contribution of such factors in different subjects could be a first step to developing targeted management strategies. Indeed, in the limelight of the contemporary model of ‘precision medicine’, it is fundamental to have instruments that allow for reliability and easily investigate the role of such factors. However, a shared strategy to document possible migraine-influencing factors is still missing. In the era of technological advances, near-endless possibilities could be available for the development of new or revised instruments to provide individually targeted migraine assessment and care.
This Research Topic aims to provide the scientific community with new instruments and methods to assess these aspects and their influence on migraine and to develop new and individually targeted assessment and management strategies for migraine. Particular interest is reserved for instruments that are developed or administered through the use of technology and their comparison with historical instruments used in migraine assessment.
We, therefore, welcome submissions of the following to this Research Topic:
Epidemiological and clinical-based studies adopting new instruments to investigate i) clinical, demographic, or psychological factors possibly influencing migraine evolution and pattern; ii) migraine burden on daily life.
Clinical trials or clinic-based studies on interventions aimed at improving factors impacting migraine and detected through new instruments.
Development, testing, and utilization of technology-based instruments are both aimed at investigating the role of migraine-influencing factors and at improving such factors.