Table 6. Determinant factors associated with medication adherence among epileptic patients attending at neurology clinic of TASH, 2017.
| Variable | Category | Adherence N (%) |
COR (95% CI) |
AOR (95% CI) |
P-Value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non adherent | Adherent | |||||
| Educational status | No formal | 4 (3.1) | 12 (7.4) | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
| Primary | 40(31.0) | 48(29.6) | 2.500(0.748–8.358) | 2 .848(0. 824–9.839) | 0.098 | |
| Secondary | 46(35.7) | 59(36.4) | 2.339(0.708–7.730) | 3.266(0. 939–11.355) | 0.063 | |
| Tertiary | 39(30.2) | 43(2 6.6) | 2.721(0.810–9.141) | 5.177(1.412–18.584) | 0.013 | |
| Seizure free years | < 1 | 98(76.0) | 93(57.4) | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
| 1–2 | 14(10.9) | 32(19.8) | 0.415(0.208–0.827) | 0.359 (0.170–0.761) | 0.007* | |
| 2–5 | 11(8.5) | 22(13.6) | 0.474(0.218–1.032) | 0.455 (0.198–1.044) | 0.043* | |
| >5 | 6(4.6) | 15(9.2) | 0.380(0.141–1.020) | 0.368 (0.129–1.050) | 0.062 | |
| Source of medication | Paying | 55(42.6) | 96(59.3) | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
| Free | 74(57.4) | 66(40.7) | 1.957(1.224–3.128) | 2.316(1.360–3.943) | 0.002* | |
| Number of mediations | 1 | 45(34.9) | 75(46.3) | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
| 2 | 45(34.9) | 52(32.1) | 1.442(0.837–2.485) | 1.295(0.731–2.298) | 0.098 | |
| >2 | 39(30.2) | 35(21.6) | 1.912(1.060–3.449) | 1.728(0.939–11.355) | 0.063 | |
| Occurrence of ADRs | No | 60(46.5) | 87(53.7) | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
| Yes | 69(53.5) | 75(46.3) | 1.334(0.839–2.121) | 1.273(0.784–2.080) | 0.327 | |
COR, crude odds ratio; AOR, adjusted odds ratio; CI, confidence interval