Determinants of Noncompliance to Clinic Appointments and Medications among Nigerian Children with Epilepsy: Experience in a Tertiary Health Facility in Enugu, Nigeria

Table 5

The association between noncompliance to medication and seizure related variables.

	Compliant (%)	Not compliant (%)		value
Seizure type
Generalized tonic clonic	67 (83.75)	13 (16.25)	3.54	0.90
Complex partial	14 (82.35)	3 (17.65)
Simple partial	5 (83.33)	1 (16.67)
Absence	3 (100)	0
Other seizures	6 (85.71)	1 (14.29)
Age at onset of epilepsy (years)
<2	9 (90)	1 (10)	2.51	0.29
2–5	42 (89.36)	5 (10.64)
>5	44 (78.57)	12 (21.43)
Antiepileptic medication
Carbamazepine	37 (90.24)	4 (9.76)	14.62	0.04
Phenobarbitone	18 (81.82)	4 (18.18)
Sodium valproate	15 (100)	0
Phenytoin	4 (66.67)	2 (33.33)
Others	5 (83.33)	1 (16.67)
Seizure control
Excellent	10 (90.91)	1 (9.09)	8.34	0.04
Good	23 (95.83)	1 (4.17)
Partial	48 (85.71)	8 (14.29)
Poor	16 (66.67)	8 (33.33)
Previous history of status epilepticus
No	83 (85.57)	14 (14.43)		0.28
Yes	12 (75)	4 (25)
Family history of epilepsy
No	76 (83.52)	15 (16.48)		1.00
Yes	19 (86.36)	3 (13.64)
Electroencephalographic finding
Normal	8 (72.73)	3 (27.27)		0.35
Abnormal	35 (87.50)	5 (12.50)
Associated anomalies
Absent	79 (84.04)	15 (15.96)	0.20	0.91
Present	15 (83.33)	3 (16.67)
Default clinic appointment
Yes	12 (66.67)	6 (33.33)		0.36
No	75 (86.21)	12 (13.79)

Fisher’s exact test.