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Prevalence and determinants of anxiety in patients with epilepsy during COVID-19 pandemic
BACKGROUND: Epilepsy is one of the most frequent and serious brain disorders. The nature of the disorder and the unpredictability of seizures usually puts patients in a state of apprehension and anticipation, which creates a continuous condition of anxiety. COVID-19 pandemic has created a state of g...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9219369/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35761963 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41983-022-00513-6 |
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author | Sehlo, Mohammad Gamal Mohamed, Wafaa Samir Youssef, Usama Mahmoud Lotfi, Shrouk Esam El-deen, Ghada Mohamed Salah |
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description | BACKGROUND: Epilepsy is one of the most frequent and serious brain disorders. The nature of the disorder and the unpredictability of seizures usually puts patients in a state of apprehension and anticipation, which creates a continuous condition of anxiety. COVID-19 pandemic has created a state of generalized anxiety all over the world. It is expected that patients with epilepsy (PWE) will suffer from more anxiety during the pandemic. This cross-sectional study was applied on 290 PWE. Data were collected by personal interview with each patient using GAD-7 scale for diagnosing anxiety and assessing its severity. We aimed to assess the prevalence of anxiety and to assess its risk factors in PWE during COVID-19 pandemic. RESULTS: We found that 52.4% of PWE suffered from anxiety. Not working, low financial status, fear of infection and death by COVID-19, fear of job loss, had job changes during pandemic, increased seizures rate during pandemic, increased ER visits, and lack of drug adherence during the pandemic, are significantly associated with increased risk of anxiety. CONCLUSIONS: COVID-19 pandemic has a serious effect on the psychological and the physical wellbeing of PWE. There was an increased rate of anxiety during COVID-19 pandemic in PWE with its subsequent burden on those patients. So, these patients are in a high need of care and support during the pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-92193692022-06-23 Prevalence and determinants of anxiety in patients with epilepsy during COVID-19 pandemic Sehlo, Mohammad Gamal Mohamed, Wafaa Samir Youssef, Usama Mahmoud Lotfi, Shrouk Esam El-deen, Ghada Mohamed Salah Egypt J Neurol Psychiatr Neurosurg Research BACKGROUND: Epilepsy is one of the most frequent and serious brain disorders. The nature of the disorder and the unpredictability of seizures usually puts patients in a state of apprehension and anticipation, which creates a continuous condition of anxiety. COVID-19 pandemic has created a state of generalized anxiety all over the world. It is expected that patients with epilepsy (PWE) will suffer from more anxiety during the pandemic. This cross-sectional study was applied on 290 PWE. Data were collected by personal interview with each patient using GAD-7 scale for diagnosing anxiety and assessing its severity. We aimed to assess the prevalence of anxiety and to assess its risk factors in PWE during COVID-19 pandemic. RESULTS: We found that 52.4% of PWE suffered from anxiety. Not working, low financial status, fear of infection and death by COVID-19, fear of job loss, had job changes during pandemic, increased seizures rate during pandemic, increased ER visits, and lack of drug adherence during the pandemic, are significantly associated with increased risk of anxiety. CONCLUSIONS: COVID-19 pandemic has a serious effect on the psychological and the physical wellbeing of PWE. There was an increased rate of anxiety during COVID-19 pandemic in PWE with its subsequent burden on those patients. So, these patients are in a high need of care and support during the pandemic. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022-06-23 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9219369/ /pubmed/35761963 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41983-022-00513-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Research Sehlo, Mohammad Gamal Mohamed, Wafaa Samir Youssef, Usama Mahmoud Lotfi, Shrouk Esam El-deen, Ghada Mohamed Salah Prevalence and determinants of anxiety in patients with epilepsy during COVID-19 pandemic |
title | Prevalence and determinants of anxiety in patients with epilepsy during COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | Prevalence and determinants of anxiety in patients with epilepsy during COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | Prevalence and determinants of anxiety in patients with epilepsy during COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Prevalence and determinants of anxiety in patients with epilepsy during COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | Prevalence and determinants of anxiety in patients with epilepsy during COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | prevalence and determinants of anxiety in patients with epilepsy during covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9219369/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35761963 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41983-022-00513-6 |
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