Assessment of Quality of Life of Epileptic Patients in Ethiopia

Table 3

Response of patients for quality of life assessment questions, UoGRH, Northwest Ethiopia; 2017.

QOLIE-10 questions	All the time (%)	Most of the time (%)	Sometimes (%)	Rarely (%)	Never (%)
Did you have enough energy for the last month?	151 (42.6)	101 (28.5)	47 (13.3)	25 (7)	30 (11.9)
Have you felt down-hearted and blue?	28 (7.9)	64 (18)	88 (24.9)	54 (15.3)	120 (33.9)
	Not at all (%)	A little (%)	Somewhat (%)	A lot (%)	A great deal (%)
Has your epilepsy/AED caused your daily life to be terrible?	191 (54)	61 (17.2)	50 (14.1)	37 (10.5)	15 (4.2)
How much are you bothered by memory difficulty	193 (54.5)	44 (12.4)	60 (17)	40 (11.3)	17 (4.8)
How much are you bothered by work limitation?	189 (53.4)	49 (13.8)	61 (17.2)	43 (12.2)	12 (3.4)
How much are you bothered by social limitation?	214 (60.5)	41 (11.6)	39 (11)	30 (8.5)	28 (7.9)
How much are you bothered by physical effect of AED?	280 (79.1)	18 (5.1)	22 (6.2)	14 (3.9)	20 (5.6)
How much are you bothered by mental effect of AED?	236 (66.6)	40 (11.3)	34 (9.6)	24 (6.8)	20 (5.7)
How fearful are you of having seizure during the next month?	185 (52.2)	77 (21.7)	31 (8.7)	39 (11)	21 (5.9)
	Very well (%)	Pretty good (%)	Good = bad (%)	Pretty bad (%)	Very bad (%)
How has the quality of your life been during the past 4 weeks? That is, how have things been going for you?	58 (16.4)	170 (48.0)	108 (30.5)	16 (4.5)	2 (0.6)