[Risk factors for therapeutic noncompliance of patients with epilepsies]. / Factores de riesgo para incumplimiento terapéutico en pacientes con epilepsias.
Gac Med Mex
; 138(3): 241-6, 2002.
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| ID: mdl-12096392
Inadequate compliance is a major contributor to unsuccessful treatment in epilepsies. To establish risk factors associated with therapeutic non-compliance in patients with epilepsy, we carried out a case-control study, nested into a cohort, with thirteen factors possibly implicated in therapeutic non-compliance. The patient's general characteristics, the illness, and patient-practitioner relationship were studied. Patients were followed during 6 months; during this time, serum levels and pill counts were registered. Of 150 patients, 66 were non-compliers and 84 were compliers. Seven of thirteen factors were statistically different with an odds ratio greater than 3 (p < 0.05). However, after log-lineal regression analysis, only the total number of pills per day and the subject's intellectual level were significant. These two factors increase 3.66 times the risk of non-compliance. We conclude that epileptic patients with a low intellectual level and more than three prescribed pills per day have a 3.66 times greater risk of non-compliance to anti epileptic treatment.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Cooperação do Paciente
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Epilepsia
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Etiology_studies
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Observational_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
Es
Revista:
Gac Med Mex
Ano de publicação:
2002
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de publicação:
México