Correlation between severity of seizures and anxiety among epileptics: Evidence from a case-control study
Journal Title: Indian Journal of Clinical Anatomy and Physiology - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
Introduction Very often patients who have epilepsy also develop psychiatric illnesses most commonly either depression or anxiety or both The current study was conducted with the objective to determine the correlation between severity of seizures and anxiety symptoms in patients having epilepsyMaterials and Methods This was a casecontrol study The cases were subjects diagnosed with epilepsy and controls were attendants of other patients who came to the outpatient departments of Hamidia Hospital Bhopal A total of 45 cases and 45 sex and agematched controls were included in the study The severity of seizures was assessed by the National Hospital Seizure Severity Scale questionnaire The level of anxiety was assessed both among cases and controls using the Indian version of Taylors Manifest Anxiety Scale Developed by D Sinha in 1961Results 91 of the control group showed normal anxiety score and 444 of epileptics were categorised as having normal anxiety score Only 133 of cases reported having very high anxiety score We observed that the mean anxiety scores of epileptic patients and controls differed very significantly p lt 0001 The anxiety scores among epileptics showed a positive correlation R2 049 with seizure severity scoresConclusions There was a correlation between seizure severity level with the arising anxiety symptomsKeywords Anxiety Epilepsy Seizure Severity
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Subodh Pandey
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