Objective: To determine the related factors to the incidence of cephalgia in Neurology
Policlinic of Pelamonia Hospital of Makassar. Methods: descriptive analytic study with cross
sectional design. The sample are patients in the Neurology Policlinic of Pelamonia Hospital
the age range of 21-70 years and with complaints of cephalgia in December 2014 - the
sample met. Data obtained from the primary data through a questionnaire to determine
whether there is a relationship factors that cause cephalgia, then analyzed using SPSS
(Statistical Product and Service Solutions) for windowsversion 21 with Pearson Chi Square
test and Kolmogorov-Smirnov test Test alternatives. Results: The number of samples
involved in this study were 60 respondents. Most of the samples were classi fied as migraine
as many as 32 people (53.3%), non-migraine 28 (46.7%) 48 (80%) aged ≥40 years, There are
42 samples of women (70%), most jobs are PNS 26 (43.3%), abnormal nutritional status of
40 people (66.7%), food containing MSG frequent category are 38 (63.3%), heavy workload
of 26 respondents (43.3%). Conclusion: Prevalence of cephalgia in Neurology Policlinic of
Pelamonia Hospital of Makassar in December 2014 - January 2015 is quite high. In this
study, a statistically significant test results with a p-value of 0.000 for factor nutritional
status, food containing MSG 0.000 and 0.012 workload. As for the factors of age and gender
results are not significant with p-value of 0.698 and 0.821.
Keywords: Cephalgia, Migraine, Non-Migraine, Food containing MSG, Nutritional Status,
Workload.