Assessment of Patients’ Adherence to Antiepileptic Medications at Dessie Referral Hospital, Chronic Follow-Up, South Wollo, Amhara Region, North East Ethiopia

Table 4

Association of Adherence with possible determinants of adherence at DRH, Dessie, Ethiopia, from April to June 2015.

Variable	Adherent	Nonadherent	total	p-value
Sex
Male	35	20	55
female	23	10	33	0.561
Income
<1000	32	26	58
>1000	20	10	30	0.421
education
illiterate	6	4	10	0.014
educated	52	26	78
Age
<52	54	30	84	0.623
>52	4	0	4
duration
<1 year	30	18	48	0.325
>1 year	28	12	40
Other medicines
Yes	11	5	16	0.791
No	47	25	72
comorbid
Yes	8	4	12	0.952
No	50	26	76
Side effect
Yes	26	7	33	0.048
No	32	23	55