Treatment Expenditure Pattern of Epileptic Patients: A Study from a Tertiary Care Hospital, Kolkata, India

Table 1

Baseline information of the study population (𝑛=315).

Variables	Group 1; No. (%)	Group 2; No. (%)	Group 3; No. (%)	Group 4; No. (%)	Group 5; No. (%)	Group 6; No. (%)
Age (in years)	≤15	16–30	31–45	46–60	≥60
	20 (6.3)	172 (54.6)	72 (22.9)	43 (13.7)	2 (0.6)
Marital status	Never married	Currently married	Widow/widower	Divorced/separated
	204 (64.8)	107 (34.0)	2 (0.6)	2 (0.6)
Educational status	Illiterate	Below primary	Primary completed	Secondary	Higher secondary	Graduate and above
	45 (14.3)	56 (17.8)	140 (44.5)	39 (12.4)	20 (6.3)	15 (4.8)
Occupation	Unemployed	Home maker	Student	Unskilled labour	Skilled labour	Service/self-employed
	81 (25.7)	24 (7.6)	42 (13.3)	95 (30.2)	40 (12.7)	33 (10.5)
Socioeconomic status; (Prasad scale)	Class I	Class II	Class III	Class IV	Class V
	10 (3.2)	26 (8.3)	49 (15.5)	150 (47.6)	80 (25.4)
Type of AED used	Conventional AED	Newer AED	Both
	252 (80)	24 (7.6)	39 (12.4)