2.3 Intervention
The control group received the standard medical care, and the intervention group were provided an add-on 30-minute verbal face-to-face clinical pharmacist-led educational interview to the parent/caregiver. He/she was educated about his/her child medications and disease individually in an interactive manner.
The education material was reviewed by pediatric neurologists in both hospitals and flash cards were designed in Arabic for the disease education and for each AED separately to facilitate education. The educational session covered the following topics:
1- Education about epilepsy disease (signs and symptoms).
2-Antiepileptic drugs therapy education (treatment importance, benefits, importance of medication adherence, and treatment length).
3- Medication administration (dosing, when and how to take a dose, how to store the medication, and what to do in case of a missed dose).
4- Drug–drug or drug–food interactions.
5- Side effects of medications and what to do when experiencing side effects.
For equality reasons, the educational session was done after the end of the study for the control group.