ReviewArchives of medical science : AMS2018
Descriptive epidemiology: prevalence, incidence, sociodemographic factors, socioeconomic domains, and quality of life of epilepsy: an update and systematic review.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 36 citations in OpenAlex.
- Quality of life and associated factors among people with epilepsy in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- The prevalence and determinants of epilepsy in Ghana: A population-based study in two districts using a three-stage approach.Epilepsia · 2026Article
- Socioeconomic inequalities in quality of life among older adults in northwestern Iran: a cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- General Practitioners and the Impact of Low Income in the Lives of People With Epilepsy: Results of an Australian Survey.Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2026Article
- Quality of Life Among Patients With Epilepsy in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: A Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study.Nursing research and practice · 2026Article
- Quality of life, depression, daytime sleepiness and fatigue in Omani people with epilepsy: a cross-sectional study.BMC neurology · 2025Article
- Progress in magnetic resonance imaging of the glymphatic system.Magnetic resonance letters · 2024Review
- Prevalence of all epilepsies in urban informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya: a two-stage population-based study.The Lancet. Global health · 2024Article
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- Societal costs and quality of life analysis in patients undergoing resective epilepsy surgery: A one-year follow-up.Epilepsy & behavior reports · 2023Article
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- Chiari 1 Malformation and Epilepsy in Children: A Missing Relationship.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Glymphatic system function in patients with newly diagnosed focal epilepsy.Brain and behavior · 2022Article
- The Effects of Perceived Stigma on the Concealment of Disease and Satisfaction with Life in Patients with Epilepsy: An Example in Eastern Turkey.International journal of clinical practice · 2022Article
- Effects of levetiracetam and oxcarbazepine monotherapy on intellectual and cognitive development in children with benign epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes.Acta neurologica Belgica · 2021Article
- CDDO-Me Attenuates Astroglial Autophagy via Nrf2-, ERK1/2-SP1- and Src-CK2-PTEN-PI3K/AKT-Mediated Signaling Pathways in the Hippocampus of Chronic Epilepsy Rats.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Effect of cinnamaldehyde on Cav-1 and Survivin expression in epilepsy: A protocol of systematic review and meta-analysis.Medicine · 2020Article
- The Positive Allosteric Modulator ofThe Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics · 2020Article
- Effects of MTHFR and ABCC2 gene polymorphisms on antiepileptic drug responsiveness in Jordanian epileptic patients.Pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine · 2019Article
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
introductionThe purpose of this study was to investigate the contributions of quality of life (QOL), sociodemographic factors (age, sex, etc.), residential areas, general attitudes toward epilepsy, socioeconomic domains, prevalence and incidence in epileptic patients from Iran. MATERIAL AND
methodsA systematic literature search was conducted, including database searches in PubMed, Medline, Embase, ScienceDirect, Scopus, ISC, Health, Web of Science, and the Cochrane Library Database of relevant articles, personal files and systematic reviews to identify studies examining risk factors in epilepsy.
resultsThis review article shows that certain socio-demographic and socio-economic factors, geographic variation in epidemiologic patterns of epilepsy as well as clinical factors may be crucial in determining QOL in epilepsy patients and provides further evidence supporting the validity of the scale in QOL based on consideration of different target groups in different areas.
conclusionsPrevalence of epilepsy appears to be correlated with socioeconomic status in the lower socioeconomic groups. Also demographic characteristics, socio-economic factors and clinical presentation are linked to different QOL of these patients among nations. The educational program has a beneficial effect on self-management behaviors in patients with epilepsy. More work needs to be done to improve tools that help to evaluate efficiently the health-related quality of life of people with epilepsy.
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