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## Background: This study aimed to determine the relationship among the clinical, logistic, and psychological impacts of covid-19 on people with epilepsy (pwe), and the impact of covid-19 on the quality of life. ## Method: This is a cross-sectional anonymized web-based study on pwe, using an online questionnaire to assess the clinical, logistic, and psychological impacts of covid-19, including hospital anxiety depression scale (hads) and quality of life in epilepsy inventory (qolie-31). ## Result: 461 patients were recruited, with a mean age of 39.21 ± 15.88 years, majority female (50.1%), with focal epilepsy (54.0%), and experienced seizures at least once yearly (62.5%). there were 13.0% experienced seizure worsening during covid-19 period, which were associated with baseline seizures frequency ≥ 1 per month (32.0% vs. 6.2%, p < 0.001), worries of seizure worsening (18.0% vs. 10.9%, p < 0.001), difficulty to go emergency unit (24.4% vs. 10.4%, p < 0.001), aeds ran out of stock (23.2% vs. 11.6%, p < 0.05), self-adjustment of aed dosages (26.4% vs. 11.3%, p < 0.001), inadequate sleep (22.4% vs. 9.2%, p < 0.001), and stress (23.4% vs.10.1%, p < 0.01). participants experiencing seizur

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Author

May-Yi Koh; Kheng-Seang Lim; Si-Lei Fong; Si-Bao Khor; Chong-Tin Tan

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)