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Purpose: This study aims to study the relationship of anxiety, depression and negative automatic thoughts with the quality of life in adolescents with primary headaches. Method and method: T.C. The Ministry of Health of the Army University Education and Research Hospital of the Children's Neurology Clinic has been included in the study of 86 patients from adolescents who apply with chronic headaches. In this study; the scale of visual pain, the scale of KIDDO-KINDL quality of life, the scale of state-continuous anxiety (SAO), the scale of child depression (CDO) and the scale of children's automatic thoughts (CDO). Results: The average age of the adolescents involved in the study was 13.7 years [Standard deviation (SS: 2,0)]. 72.1% of the cases (n=62) were girls and 27.9% (n=24) men. The average headache duration was 5.6 hours/day (SS: 6.7) while the average pain severity was 6.8 (SS: 1.7) according to the visual pain scale. The severity of the headache by girls was significantly higher than the men (p=0,022). There was a strongly negative correlation between SAO and CODO and the quality of life points (rho=-0,623, p=0,001; rho=-0,690, p=0,001). There was a negative correlation between CODO and quality of life (rho=0,584, p=0,002). In linear regression analysis, gender, duration, pain severity, SAO, CODO and CODO variables described 53.2% of the variance in the KIDDO-KINDL points. The Regression Equation was statistically meaningful, but no subjective individual reached a meaningful level [F (6,12)=4,4; p=0,014]. The result: Anxiety and depression levels of adolescents with primary headaches and negative cognitive content appear to be associated with quality of life.

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