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Study of Anxiety and depression in Adults Suffering from Epilepsy
Study of Anxiety and depression in Adults Suffering from Epilepsy
mehrangiz ghabimi,1,*
1. PhD student of nursing , student research committee ,Nursing and midwifery school , Birjand university of medical sciences,,Birjand, iran
Introduction: Epilepsy is one of the most important diseases of the nervous system caused by sudden electrical discharge,alternative and extreme of brain neurons and because this disease is chronic and life-long often causes mental illnesses such as anxiety disorders and depression, influences the life quality of these patients. Therefore, considering the importance of this matter this study review was done on the spread of anxiety disorders and depression.
Methods: This article has been done in a systematic review in order to examine the spread of anxiety disorders and adult epilepsy. To track down the source articles used go to PubMed, Scholar, Medline, SID, CINAHL, Scopus, Elsevier, Iran Doc and Magrian. From 2010 to 2024 with emphasis on the last 4 recent years. Searching articles for sources with keywords such as: Anxiety, depression, epilepsy, adults, also combinations and independent words were extracted using boolean operators.
Results: According to results of the study research, the spread of anxiety and depression among epileptic patients is high. However, the review of studies shows that the prevalence of depression and anxiety is almost the same in these patients.
Conclusion: Considering the fact that this disease is strongly chronic and high spread of mental disorders like anxiety and depression and physical-psychological consequences in such patients; prevention and early detection is of high importance.