3.1 Patients
81 patients were enrolled into either the control (n=40) or the
intervention group (n=41). After 8 weeks, five (n=5, 12%) from the
intervention group and five (n=5, 12.5%) from the control group were
lost to follow up, due to inability to contact them by the phone numbers
provided. Therefore, total number of patients included in the
statistical analysis at follow up were 71 (87.65%), of them 36 (88%)
in the intervention group and 35 (87.5%) in the control group (Figure
2). Table 1 shows the baseline demographic and clinical characteristics
of the 81 patients.
The mean age of patients (±SD) in the intervention group was 8.63 ± 3.99
years, and in the control group was 8.9 ± 3.5 years. The highest
percentage of pediatric epilepsy patients was in the age of 7-12 years
(n=37) 45.7%, while patients aged 0-6 years were 33.3% (n=27), and the
least percentage of patients was in the age of 13-18 years (n=17) 21%.