MEDICINE Frequency of Headache Disorders in Neurology Outpatients at Yalgado Ouedraogo University Teaching Hospital. A 3-Month Prospective Cross-sectional Study Alfred Anselme Dabilgou 1 & Alassane Dravé 2 & Julie Marie Adeline Kyelem 1 & Younoussa Sawadogo 1 & Christian Napon 3 & Athanase Millogo 4 & Jean Kaboré 1 Accepted: 6 February 2020 /Published online: 18 February 2020 # Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 Abstract To determine the frequency of chronic headache in a population of patients attending to neurology consultation. This prospective cross-sectional study was carried on patients with chronic headaches attending at neurology consultation of YOUTH. This study was conducted in 3 months in the Neurology Department of Ouagadougou YOUTH from October 10, 2017 to January 10, 2018. One hundred and two patients (mean age 41.2 ± 16.1 years, 61.8% of women) with headache were included during study period. The majority of patients (56.9%) had previous medical or nursing consultations. Of them, 76.5% had received prior medical treatment. The most common past medical history was cranial trauma (21.6%) followed by hypertension (18.6%) and dental diseases (16.7%). The mean duration of headache was 52.5 ± 32.7 months (ranges 3–273 months). The majority of patients (85.4%) had episodic headaches. Primary headaches were the most common cause of headache (52.9%), including tension-type headaches (51.8%) and migraine (38.9%). Headache had major impact on the quality of life of patients with migraine (44.5%) and patients with TTH (54.2%). Headache was frequent in Neurology Department. Primary headaches are the most common types of headache dominated by tension-type headaches and migraine. Keywords Headache . Frequency . Migraine . Tension-type headache . Outpatient’ s neurology Introduction Headaches are among the most common neurological disor- ders prevalent in every country affecting both genders and all socioeconomic levels [1]. The overall prevalence of headache varies across studies from 35 to almost 100% [2]. Chronic headaches affect approximately 3–4% (range from 0.5 to 7.3%) of the adult population in western countries [3, 4].The burden of recurrent headaches is huge on the individual and the society at large [5–7]. Headache is responsible for several This article is part of the Topical Collection on Medicine * Alfred Anselme Dabilgou dabilgouanselm@yahoo.fr Alassane Dravé aladraves@yahoo.fr Julie Marie Adeline Kyelem linejulyk@yahoo.fr Younoussa Sawadogo noussayou25@yahoo.fr Christian Napon cnapon@gmail.com Athanase Millogo athanase.millogo@gmail.com SN Comprehensive Clinical Medicine (2020) 2:301–307 https://doi.org/10.1007/s42399-020-00238-8 Jean Kaboré jean-kabore@hotmail.fr 1 Department of Neurology, University Hospital Yalgado Ouedraogo, 03 BP 7022, Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso 2 Department of Neurology, Regional University Hospital of Ouahigouya, Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso 3 Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Bogodogo, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso 4 Department of Neurology, University Hospital Teaching Hospital Souro Sanon, Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso