Lifestyle Medicine Group Visits for Teenagers With Migraine and Headache
Tests a 7-week lifestyle program in teenagers who have headaches.
Plain-language title generated from the registry record
Registry title: Adolescent Lifestyle Medicine Headache Study
Key facts
- Where
- Scarborough, United StatesSee the site
Could this be for you?
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 14 and 18 years old?
Source: NCT07373275, who can take part
Where in United States
- MaineHealth Pediatric NeurologyScarborough, United StatesNo longer taking part
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Trial details
- Who runs it
- MaineHealth
- Trial code
- NCT07373275
- Record updated
- 6 May 2026
- Original description
The goal of this pilot clinical trial is to assess the implementation of a 7-week Lifestyle Medicine intervention for adolescents with headache. The main question it aims to answer is:Read full original descriptionShow less
Investigating Lifestyle Medicine Interventions for Adolescent Headache Relief
The goal of this pilot clinical trial is to assess the implementation of a 7-week Lifestyle Medicine intervention for adolescents with headache. The main question it aims to answer is:
Is it feasible to implement a Lifestyle Medicine curriculum for adolescents with headache and secondarily, does this intervention show any signal for improving headache symptoms?
Participants will be divided into two groups based on the order of their enrollment. After consent, they will be asked to complete 3 symptom surveys: PedMIDAS-6w, PHQ-A and GAD-7, in addition to a Lifestyle Survey. They will attend group medicine visits virtually, facilitated by the study team. Each week will address a different tenant of Lifestyle Medicine (such as eating or sleep) and participants will create a SMART goal to work on for the week. At the end of the seven weeks, they will repeat these symptom and lifestyle surveys. During the seven weeks, they will also keep a daily symptom diary, which will be texted to their phones through a HIPPA-compliant RedCAP database.
Inclusion: 14-18 years old; Frequent episodic migraine headaches with our without aura (>4 months); Patient at MaineHealth Pediatric Neurology or MaineHealth Pediatrics Portland; Current High School Enrollment; English Speaking.
Exclusion: Increase in prophylactic headache medication 6 weeks prior to the onset of intervention; Diagnosis of eating disorder or Autism Spectrum Disorder; Headache secondary to specific medical or neurological conditions (e.g. brain tumor, infection, trauma); Age <14 year or >18 years; PHQ-A scores of 20 or higher; Intractable/daily headache.