Table 5. Predictors of occurrence of drug therapy problems in epileptic patients attending at neurology clinic of TASH, 2017.
| Variables | category | DTPs (%) |
COR (95% CI) |
AOR (95% CI) |
P-Value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | No | |||||
| Gender | Male | 106(73.6) | 48(32.7) | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
| Female | 38(23.6) | 99(67.3) | 1.18(0.711–1.957) | 1.19(.667–2.13) | 0.552 | |
| Age | <18 | 33(16.1) | 6(7.0) | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
| 18–30 | 104(50.7) | 42(48.8) | 0.450(0.176–1.153) | 0.371(0.129–1.068 | 0.066 | |
| 30–60 | 65(31.7) | 34(39.5) | 0.348(0.133–0.911) | 0.256(0.089–0.790 | 0.057 | |
| >60 | 3(1.5) | 4(4.7) | 0.136(0.024–0.770) | 0.135(0.017–1.081 | 0.059 | |
| Number of medications | 1 | 73(35.6) | 47(54.7) | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
| 2 | 71(34.6) | 26(30.2) | 1.758(0.985–3.140) | 1.350(0.687–2.652) | 0.383 | |
| >2 | 61(29.8) | 13(15.1) | 3.273(1.594–6.719) | 3.810(1.409–10.30) | 0.008* | |
| Co-morbidities | No | 155(75.6) | 68(79.1) | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
| Yes | 50(24.4) | 18(20.9) | 1.22(0.662–2.242) | 1.475(0.286–1.607) | 0.378 | |
COR, crude odds ratio; AOR, adjusted odds ratio; CI, confidence interval