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Quality of Life in Drug-resistant Epilepsy: Relationships with Negative Affectivity, Memory, Somatic Symptoms and Social Support by Irene Cano-López; Kevin G. Hampel; Mercedes Garcés; Vicente Villanueva; Esperanza González-Bono is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Objective: To investigate the relative contribution of factors non-directly related to seizures such as negative affectivity, social support, somatic symptoms and memory performance on quality of life (qol) in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. ## Methods: This is a cross-sectional study. seventy patients with drug-resistant epilepsy were consecutively recruited from the inpatient epilepsy unit, hospital universitario y politécnico la fe, between april 2015 and october 2017. medical history provided demographic characteristics of the patients (sex, age, and educational level), and clinical data (age at epilepsy onset, duration of epilepsy in years, frequency of seizures per month, type of seizures and number of aeds). pre-surgical assessment included diagnosis of the type of epilepsy and the lateralization of the epileptogenic area. all the patients underwent a neuropsychological assessment in which qol (qolie-31), negative affectivity, social support, somatic symptoms, and memory were evaluated. ## Results: Negative affectivity (including anxiety-trait and depression), social support, neurosensory symptoms, and long-term verbal memory were significantly related to qol compo
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- Author
- Irene Cano-López; Kevin G. Hampel; Mercedes Garcés; Vicente Villanueva; Esperanza González-Bono
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)