PURPOSE Epilepsy is not only a neurological disorder but may also have negative psychosocial consequences on people with epilepsy (PWE) and their relatives. Epilepsy has a major impact on quality of life (QoL) in PWE and family members. However, less is known about the impact of family support and family functioning on quality of life for PWE and family members and their interaction. Therefore,...

OBJECTIVE A systematic review and meta-analysis of all available case-control studies on the relationship between onchocerciasis and epilepsy. Because age and level of onchocerciasis endemicity in the area of residence are major determinants for infection, an additional analysis was performed, restricted to studies achieving control of these confounding factors. DATA SOURCES Medical databases...

PURPOSE Up to 60% of people with epilepsy (PwE) have psychiatric comorbidity including anxiety. Anxiety remains under recognized in PwE. This study investigates if screening tools validated for depression could be used to detect anxiety disorders in PWE. Additionally it analyses the effect of anxiety on QoL. METHOD 261 participants with a confirmed diagnosis of epilepsy were included. Neurolo...

PURPOSE Previous studies show anti-epileptic drug compliance and seizure control in people with epilepsy (PWE) to be lower among low-income groups and African-Americans. We examined how socio-demographic factors influence seizure control in an inner-city population. METHODS The clinic records of 193 PWE were analyzed. Good seizure control was defined as no seizures in the previous year. Bivar...

PURPOSE Epilepsy surgery has been shown to improve patient quality of life (QOL). Little is known about its effect on caregiver QOL. METHODS The study population comprised of 26 persons with epilepsy (PWE) who underwent long term video EEG monitoring at Massachusetts General Hospital for presurgical evaluation along with 16 caregivers. The PWE completed epilepsy directed QOL (QOLIE-31) and ps...

BackgroundPeople with epilepsy (PWE) may have a sedentary lifestyle and less physical activity (PA) as they are often advised against engaging in sports, despite plethora of evidence suggesting seizure control, major health psychosocial benefits associated PA. We aimed to investigate PWE’s beliefs on PA their level compared controls.MethodsThe Baecke questionnaire for measuring habitual adults,...

Effective anti-plane quasistatic moduli for 2D piezoelectric phononic crystals of arbitrary anisotropy are formulated analytically using the plane-wave expansion (PWE) method and the recently proposed monodromy-matrix (MM) method. The latter approach employs Fourier series in one dimension with direct numerical integration along the other direction. As a result, the MM method converges much qui...

Accurate radio wave prediction models are necessary for the innovation of mobile communication technology and deployment wireless sensor networks in railways. The parabolic equation (PWE) method is one commonly used to predict electromagnetic characteristic long railway tunnels. However, advent novel antennas technologies (e.g., beam steering, beamforming) has posed new challenges PWE-based suc...

OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to investigate the reliability of the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R) in Turkish patients with epilepsy (PWE) and to determine the effects of earthquake experience on the perception of disease in patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS The sample was composed of 48 PWE, who were affected by the 2011 earthquake (n=21) or who had never had any eart...

PURPOSE People with epilepsy (PWE) are more likely to have impaired quality of life (QOL) than the general population. We studied predictors of QOL and their interrelations in Korean PWE. METHODS Subjects who consecutively visited outpatient clinics in four tertiary hospitals and one secondary care hospital were enrolled. These subjects completed the Korean version of the Neurological Disorde...