Table 1.

Distribution of participant by their socio-demographic and clinical characteristics at University of Gondar Hospital, 2014 (n=408)

Characteristics	Number	Percent
Sex Male Female	257 151	63 37
Age </=24 25–34 35–44 >=45	166 125 87 30	40.7 30.6 21.3 7.4
Educational status Can't read and write Primary Secondary College and above	117 198 51 42	28.7 48.5 12.5 10.3
Religion Orthodox Muslim	375 33	91.9 8.1
Marital status Married Single Divorced/Widowed	247 119 42	60.5 28.2 10.3
Ethnicity Amhara Tigre	387 21	94.9 5.1
Employment Government Private Student Unemployed	28 241 66 73	6.9 59 16.2 17.9
Residence Rural Urban	192 216	47.1 52.9
Social support High Moderate Low	250 94 64	61.3 23 15.7
Perceived stress Low High	190 218	46.6 53.4
Duration of the disease <1 2–5 6–10 >=11	40 144 118 106	9.8 35.3 28.9 26
Seizure frequency per year 0 1–11/year >=1/month	85 293 30	20.8 71.8 7.4
Therapy(number of drug) Mono-therapy Poly-therapy	310 98	76 24
Difficulties of adherence to AEDs Yes No	134 274	32.8 67.2