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## Objective: Pandemics like coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) bring along many individual and social problems. we aimed to investigate what changes the covid-19 pandemic can cause in patients with epilepsy on drug compliance and stigmatization. ## Material and method: Modified morisky scale (mms) and stigmatization scales were used between october and november 2019 to assess drug compliance and stigmatization in epilepsy patients. these scales were renewed in june and july 2020 in the same patient group to assess the impact of the epidemic on drug compliance and stigmatization in patients with epilepsy. statistical analysis was performed using the statistical software spss 17.0 for windows (spss, inc). demographic and clinical characteristics of the patients were recorded in spss. the interviews were conducted during the interictal period. paired-samples t-test was used to compare the stigma scale results of epilepsy patients before and during covid-19. the wilcoxon test was used to compare mms groups before and during covid-19. ## Results: A total of 110 patients were included in the study. there was no significant difference between the pre-pandemic and pandemic period in epil

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Author

Zeynep Bastug Gul; Hayrunisa Dilek Atakli

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Inc.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 1525-5050)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)