The authors investigate the appearance of psychogenic headaches among 150 displaced persons of both sexes, average age 43 years with specific prepared questionnaire (Incidental Report Interview with questions important for the culture of examinees), neurological and psychiatric checkups. Diagnosis of headache was established according to the criteria of the Headache Classification Committee of the International Headache Society. In the group of 150 displaced persons the authors have found 106 (70%), 31 (30%) among males and 75 (70%) among females) psychogenic headaches. Psychogenic headache appeared in 53% of the male cases and was connected with psychoticism (1.7%), conversion (8.3%) and depression (43%), and in 81% of the female cases expression of conversion (4.3%) or a follower of anxiety (10.7%) and depression (66%). Headache is together with anxiety and depression most frequently found in the age groups 31-40 and 51-60 years, among married individuals (76%), and among those with secondary school education (86%). In the group of psychogenic headaches, 13 (42%) males and 23 (30%) females had elements of muscle contraction (tension) headaches, and 9 (29%) males and 8 (10%) females, mainly from the groups 31-40 and 51-60 years with lower educational level had elements of combined vascular and tension headaches. There was a positive correlation between the employment before exile, unemployment in exile, the loss of experience in changing the place of living, leaving home and country under pressure and in peril of death and appearance and intensity of psychogenic headaches.

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