Analysis of Family Burden of Disease and Influencing Factors of Epilepsy Patients in Gansu Rural Areas
Li Keng
Ma Xiaodong
Lv Fang
Pan Weiming
Xu Feifei
Xie Lulu
Abstract：OBJECTIVE To study the family burden scale of disease about epilepsy patients and its influencing factors in rural areas of Gansu,and to provide scientific basis for reducing the family burden of epilepsy patients in rural areas.METHODS From March to December in 2021,the Family Burden Scale of Disease(FBS)was used to evaluate the disease family burden of 232 epilep-sy patients in rural areas of Gansu.SPSS19.0 software was used for t-test,analysis of variance and regression analysis.Analyze pos-sible influencing factors about the family burden of patients.RESULTS There were 87.00％epilepsy patients had disease family bur-den among the 323 rural epilepsy patients in rural areas.There was statistical difference in the family burden scores of patients with different economic income,course of disease,attack frequency,compliance,and treatment costs.But there was no statistically differ-ent gender,age,marriage,education level,age of onset,and types of medication.Multivariate regression analysis showed that the pa-tient's family economic income,compliance,course of disease,and treatment costs were the factors affecting the family burden.CONCLUSION The family burden of epilepsy patients in rural areas is high.Patients with low family income,poor compliance,long course of disease and high treatment costs are risk factors of family burden of disease.Targeted intervention measures should be tak-en to reduce the burden of disease families.
Keywords：epilepsyfamily burden of diseaseinfluencing factorsrural areas
Publication Date：2023-12-10
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 10-12 )