A Ten Year Review of Drug Prescribing Pattern Of Epilepsy Patients from a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic

Piyush P Singh; Suhail A Azmi; Shravan Kumar

Volume : VI, Issue : VII, July - 2017

A Ten Year Review of Drug Prescribing Pattern Of Epilepsy Patients from a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic

Piyush P Singh, Suhail A Azmi, Shravan Kumar

Abstract :

Background: There is serious paucity of services and scientific data in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry in India. The present study aims to provide Clinical data in regards with the drug prescribing pattern of Epilepsy patients, numerically the most common patients at our Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) Clinic over a ten year period.

Methods: Data was abstracted retrospectively from the records of patients attending the CAP Clinic of the JN Medical College, Aligarh over the period of 2007–2016. Pattern of drug prescription in the Epilepsy patients was extracted.

Results: Majority of the diagnosed Epilepsy patients (n=334) were males (63.17 %) of urban residence (77.54 %) who received monotherapy (78.74 %). Valproate, Carbamazepine and oxcarbazepine were the commonest drugs.

Conclusion: Monotherapy with valproate and Carbamazepine are the most common prescribing pattern at our Clinic. Lamotrigine is a significant add–on drug to monotherapy.