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%.