The burden of headache disorders in the adult population of Mongolia: estimates, and a health-care needs assessment, from a cross-sectional population-based study

Table 6 Health-Care needs assessment

Criterion fulfilled		Proportion of sample		Estimated proportion of adult population*
Criterion fulfilled		n	%	% [95% CI]
1	Headache on ≥ 15 days/month	245	12.0	10.7 [9.4–12.1]
2	Migraine on ≥ 3 days/month	322	15.8	15.0 [13.5–16.6]
3	Migraine and pTIS > 3.3% and moderate-severe intensity	135¹	6.6	6.3 [5,3-7.5]
4	Migraine and lost work and/or household days/3 months ≥ 3	151²	7.4	6.8 [5.8-8.0]
5	TTH and pTIS > 3.3% and moderate-severe intensity	34	1.7	1.6 [1.1–2.3]
6	TTH and lost work and/or household days/3 months ≥ 3	61³	3.0	2.8 [2.1–3.6]
One or more of criteria 1–6		703	34.4	33.2 [31.2–35.3]

*Age- and gender-corrected; ¹of whom 116 also fulfilled criterion 2; ²of whom 116 also fulfilled criterion 2, 57 also fulfilled criterion 3 and 51 also fulfilled criteria 2 and 3; ³of whom 7 also fulfilled criterion 5; pTIS: proportion of time in ictal state; TTH: tension-type headache

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