Treatment outcome and its predictors among children with epilepsy on chronic follow-up in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Seventy percent of epileptic patients may not experience seizures if they receive proper treatment with antiepileptic drugs (AEDs). However, many children and adolescents face poor seizure control (PSC). Therefore, the purpose of this review is to systematically and quantitatively summarize the pooled prevalence of PSC and its predictors among children with epilepsy in Ethiopia.

Methods

The following databases were used to conduct a thorough literature search: Africa Journal of the Online Library, Hinari, Google Scholar, PubMed, Science Direct, EMBASE, Cochrane Database, Sci-Hub, and Scopus. To evaluate the quality of the studies, Newcastle‒Ottawa Scale (NOS) checklists were utilized. The data on study characteristics and prevalence estimates were then combined vi

SUBMITTER: Geremew GW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11523642 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature