Cost of Illness of Epilepsy and Associated Factors in Patients Attending Adult Outpatient Department of University of Gondar Referral Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia

Epilepsy has significant economic implications on health care needs, premature death, and lost work productivity. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the cost of illness of epilepsy and its associated factors in the Outpatient Department of University of Gondar Referral Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia. We conducted an institution-based cross-sectional study from March 2018 to April 2018. A total of 442 adult epileptic patients were selected from the chronic follow-up clinic using a systematic sampling technique. We fitted binary logistic regression to identify the associated factors, and significant variables in the multivariable logistic regression analysis were determined using P-value