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WEDNESDAY, Jan. 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) does not improve migraine frequency more than headache education, according to a study published online Dec. 14 in JAMA Internal Medicine<\/em>.<\/p>\n Rebecca Erwin Wells, M.D., M.P.H., from Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and colleagues randomly assigned 89 adults (92 percent female) who experienced four to 20 migraine days per month to either MBSR (standardized training in mindfulness\/yoga) or headache education (migraine information) delivered in groups that met for two hours each week for eight weeks.<\/p>\n The researchers found that participants in both groups had fewer migraine days at 12 weeks (MBSR: \u00e2\u0088\u00921.6 migraine days per month; headache education: \u00e2\u0088\u00922.0 migraine days per month), without a difference between the groups. Those who participated in MBSR had improvements from baseline at all follow-up time points for measures of disability (point estimates of effect differences between groups: 5.92), quality of life (5.1), self-efficacy (8.2), pain catastrophizing (5.8), and depression scores (1.6). The MBSR group also had a decrease in experimentally induced pain intensity and unpleasantness at 36 weeks compared with the headache education group (change in intensity: MBSR, 36.3 percent decrease; headache education, 13.5 percent increase; change in unpleasantness: MBSR, 30.4 percent decrease; headache education, 11.2 percent increase).<\/p>\n “Mindfulness meditation may help treat the total burden of migraine,” the authors write.<\/p>\n One author disclosed financial ties to pharmaceutical companies. <\/p>\n Abstract\/Full Text (subscription or payment may be required)<\/a><\/p>\n Editorial (subscription or payment may be required)<\/a><\/p>\n <\/i><\/p>\n