Epilepsy Treatment Outcome and Its Predictors among Ambulatory Patients with Epilepsy at Mizan-Tepi University Teaching Hospital, Southwest Ethiopia

Table 5

Predictors of poorly controlled seizure among epileptic patients on AEDs at MTUTH from March 10 to April 10, 2018.

Variables affecting treatment outcome	Seizure treatment outcome		AOR (95% CI)	value
	Controlled frequency (%)	Noncontrolled frequency (%)
Level of adherence
High adherence	25 (71.4%)	10 (28.6%)	1.00	1.00
Medium adherence	12 (50%)	12 (50%)	5.4 (1.52–19.23)	0.009
Low adherence	19 (22.6%)	65 (77.4%)	8.16 (3.04–21.90)	0.00 1
History of head injury
Yes (68)	19 (28%)	49 (72%)	2.4 (1.088–5.314)	0.03
No (75)	37 (49.3%)	38 (50.7)	1.00	1.00
History of head injury
Before seizure occurrence	10 (18.9%)	43 (81.1%)	4.90 (1.25–19.27)	0.02
After seizure occurrence	9 (60%)	6 (40%)	1.00	1.00
Frequency of seizure attacks per week before AEDs initiation
<3 times	43 (62.3%)	26 (37.7%)	1.00	1.00
>4 times	15 (20%)	59 (79.7%)	1.98 (1.05 5.98)	0.012
Marital status
Married	26 (36.6%)	45 (63.4%)	1.00	1.00
Single	26 (41.3%)	37 (58.7%)	0.64 (0.27–1.51)	0.31
Divorced	0	4	9.9 (0.05–4.45)	0.99
Widowed	4 (80%)	1 (20%)	0.08 (0.01–0.93)	0.04
Monthly income
>2000	8 (57.1%)	6 (42.9%	1.00	1.00
1000–2000	15 (34.9%)	28 (65.1%)	2.09 (0.71–7.51)	0.246
500–1000	15 (48.4%)	16 (51.6%)	1.62 (0.29–4.57)	0.384
Less than 500	9 (36%)	16 (64%)	2.03 (0.32–1.99)	0.236
Educational status
College/university	7 (31.8%)	15 (68.2%)	1.00	1.00
Secondary (9–12)	10 (37%)	17 (63)	1.05 (0.12–1.86)	0.583
Primary (1–8)	31 (39.2%)	48 (60.8%)	2.20 (0.65–2.87)	0.526
Not educated	8 (53.3%)	7 (46.7%)	1.02 (0.11–1.58)	0.095