The burden of headache disorders in the adult general population of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: estimates from a cross-sectional population-based study including a health-care needs assessment

Table 5 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	100	4.3	4.3 [3.5–5.2]
2	Migraine on ≥ 3 days/month	356	15.4	15.2 [13.8–16.7]
3	Migraine and pTIS > 3.3% and moderate-severe intensity	191¹	8.2	8.0 [6.9–9.2]
4	Migraine and lost work and/or household days/3 months ≥ 3	370²	16.0	14.8 [13.4–16.3]
5	TTH and pTIS > 3.3% and moderate-severe intensity	38	1.6	2.0 [1.5–2.7]
6	TTH and lost work and/or household days/3 months ≥ 3	157³	6.8	6.9 [5.9-8.0]
One or more of criteria 1–6		830	35.8	35.8 [33.9–37.8]

*Age- and gender-corrected; ¹of whom 150 also fulfilled criterion 2; ²of whom 192 also fulfilled criterion 2, 119 also fulfilled criterion 3, and 94 also fulfilled criteria 2 and 3; ³of whom 15 also fulfilled criterion 5

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