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. 2022 Jun 3;8(6):e09618. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09618

Table 1.

The number of patients participated in the study.

Clinic Name No of Male No of Female Total
Karen Health Centre 9 15 24
Riruta Health Centre 18 14 32
Lions Health Clinic 30 25 55
  • A.
    The age categories of patients were 57% (From 21 to 50 years), 22% (from 10 to 20 years), and 11% (Above 50 years), then 10% (Under ten years). As it is illustrated in Figure 1
  • B.
    GTC seizures affect 74% of individuals, with 16% developing Myoclonic attacks and 10% experiencing Absence seizures. As it is shown in Figure 1
  • C.
    5% of patients blanked out for less than 1 min during the attack, 14% never blanked out during the seizure, 15% of patients blanked out for 1–2 min during the attack, then 22 % blanked out for more than 5 min, and 44 % blanked out between 3 to 5 min. As it is illustrated in Figure 1
  • D.
    The recovery time after the attack is significant for the patients who have GTC seizures, so we figure out that 37% of the patient take from 1 to 2 h and 33% of them take from 6 min to 1 h, and as a minimum and 2 h as maximum to be expected. As it is illustrated in Figure 2
  • E.
    The seizure level was varied as 29% of the patients experienced a very severe seizure, and 31% of them have usually experienced a severe episode, then 29% had mild attacks, and 11% of the patients experienced very mild seizures. As it is illustrated in Figure 2
  • F.
    The number of seizures is significant to know the repetitive rate of attack for each particular patient; where we figure out that 38% of patients experience ten or more during 2021, and most of them have GTC seizure type Figure 2 shows the graphical statistic of epilepsy behaviours
  • G.
    Based on the study, 74% of the patients with GTC seizures have common symptoms and behaviours came as follows, loss of consciousness that can cause falling of the body, which the accelerometer sensor can detect, and muscles spasm that can be detected by the EMG sensor and increasing heart rate that will be detected by ECG sensor.
    28% of the patients with GTC seizures have additional symptoms, such as the increasing temperature that the Dallas temperature sensor will detect. As it is illustrated in Figure 3.