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The study was to examinethe patient care services and pharmacist intervention for the promotion adherence to the treatment for epilepsy, evaluate the effects of patient education or patient counselling, or both on treatment completion in people requiring treatment for epilepsy andimprove medication adherence among persons with epilepsy by implementing simple, but time-intensive interventionsto evaluate the medication knowledge achieved by conventional verbal education and the influence of patient counselling in patients with epilepsy. Drug compliance and sources of information of the patients were also examined. Participants were 200 patients and children were 50 with epilepsy at a neurological clinic in erode districtthat were referred by their neurologist.The impact of the study was examined under by giving counseling to patients taking antiepileptic drugs on both adherence and non adherences are also explored.