The burden of headache and a health-care needs assessment in the adult population of Mali: a cross-sectional population-based study

Table 7 Headache-care needs assessment

Criterion fulfilled		Proportion of sample		Estimated proportion of adult population*
Criterion fulfilled		n	%	% [95% CI]
a	Headache on ≥ 15 days/month (pMOH or other)	102	4.8	4.5 [3.7–5.5]
b	Episodic headache and pTIS > 3.3%	236	11.2	10.9 [9.6–12.3]
c	Episodic headache and ≥ 3 lost work and/or household days/3 months	343¹	16.3	15.1 [13.6–16.7]
One or more of criteria a-c		519	24.7	23.4 [21.6–25.3]

*Age- and gender-adjusted; pMOH: probable medication-overuse headache; pTIS: proportion of time in ictal state; ¹Of whom 81 also fulfilled criteria b

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