Compliance in epileptic children in Japan.
We investigated compliance in 133 epileptic patients with an onset before 15 years. Compliance was determined according to prescription rate. Those with a prescription rate over 95% were regarded as compliant and those with a rate below 95% as non-compliant. One-hundred patients (75.2%) were compliant. Good compliance was related to early onset of epilepsy, high seizure frequency, short duration of seizure-free period and self-reported complete intake of medicine. Duration of epilepsy, seizure/drug calendar recording, number of drugs and plasma level of antiepileptic drugs were not associated with compliance.
Kurokawa
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Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
Minami
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Kitamoto
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Mizuno
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Maeda
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Takaki
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000927:Anticonvulsants / Q000097:blood / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D010349:Patient Compliance; D012646:Self Administration
D000927:Anticonvulsants