The Level of Knowledge in Cimahi Local Communities About Headache^s Red Flags
Dessy, Sandi Lesmana

Neurology Department of UNJANI Medical Faculty

Abstract

Headache is a pain that caused by disorder in some pain sensitive structures on head and neck areas, such as scalp, subcutis tissue, head and neck^s muscles, vessels, eyes, ears, teeth, sinuses, upper farynx, and neurons. Most type of headache is not dangerous and can be healed by analgetics and rest, but some type of headache need more examination because it can be dangerous and could be life threatening.
This study aims to see how the local communities in Cimahi know about red flags of headache. Knowledge or cognition is an important domain to form someone^s action.
There was 160 respondens who involved in this study. They came from Cimahi and its surrounding areas. They were given questionnaire about headache^s red flags and they were asked to answer if the statement was true or false. This study show that the knowledge in our respondens about headache^s red flags was about 76.3%. Further education is needed to increase public knowledge about the red flags of headace.

Keywords: knowledge, headache

Topic: Public Health