Epilepsy In Nigeria – A Review Of Etiology, Epidemiology And Management

Olubunmi, AO

doi:10.4314/bjpm.v8i1.47362

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“…Figure 2 represents that out of those that stigmatize against epileptic patients, 25 (11%) believe that it is cause by witchcraft/evil spirit while 9 (4%) believe that it is as a result of supernatural curses from the gods. While in table 22, it shows that 126 (32%) of the sample do not believe that people with epilepsy are maltreated in the society while 272 (68%) do believe that people with epilepsy are treated unfairly in the society.…”

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Epilepsy, Stigmatization and Media Campaigns: An Assessment of Rise Clinic Experience

2017

International Journal of Media, Journalism and Mass Communicati

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Section: Analysis Of Research Questionsmentioning

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Epilepsy, Stigmatization and Media Campaigns: An Assessment of Rise Clinic Experience

2017

International Journal of Media, Journalism and Mass Communicati

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“…Epilepsy is a chronic disorder of the central nervous system of various etiologies characterized by recurrent seizures due to excessive discharge of cerebral neurons (Olubunmi, 2006). It is one of the most common and widespread neurological disorders; imposes large economic burden on global health care systems and is a major public health problem in low and middle-income countries (Mbuba and Newton, 2009).…”

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Anticonvulsant properties of methanol leaf extract of Laggera Aurita Linn. F. (Asteraceae) in laboratory animals

Malami

Kyari

Danjuma

et al. 2016

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

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“…Epilepsy occurs in all mammalian species, and seems to be more frequent with increased complexity of mammalian brains [3]. It is one of the most common and serious neuropsychiatric disorders in the world [4] [5]. It is also the most common non-infectious neuropsychiatric disease in developing African countries like Nigeria [4].…”

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Correlates of Anxiety Disorder among Patients with Seizure Disorders in a Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Nigeria

Madandola¹,

Sale²,

Adebisi³

et al. 2019

OJPsych

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Background: Anxiety may complicate epilepsy as is often the case out of the various psychiatric comorbidities patients can suffer from when they are suffering from epilepsy. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of anxiety among patients that had epilepsy and also to examine the associated socio-demographic and clinical factors that are associated with and eventually predictive of this psychiatric comorbidity. Materials and Method: This study was a descriptive cross-sectional study that involved the use of General Health Questionnaire, version 28 (GHQ-28) and the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI), which were used independently to investigate each of the 400 consecutive participants in this study over a period of 24 weeks. The diagnosis of epilepsy was based on the International Classification of Diseases (ICD10) diagnostic criteria and all participants with anxiety were diagnosed using CIDI. A proforma Questionnaire was used to assess the socio-demographic and some clinical variables among patients. Logistic regression was done to determine the predictors of anxiety in the study participants. Results: When screened with GHQ-28, 71 people (17.8%) met criteria for caseness. When all the participants were examined using CIDI, 12 (3%) were diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder. The variables found to be the predictors of anxiety were family history of psychiatric disorders (p = 0.045), fear of having seizure (p = 0.036) and GHQ caseness (p = 0.002).

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Epilepsy In Nigeria – A Review Of Etiology, Epidemiology And Management

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Cited by 22 publications

References 50 publications

Epilepsy, Stigmatization and Media Campaigns: An Assessment of Rise Clinic Experience

Epilepsy, Stigmatization and Media Campaigns: An Assessment of Rise Clinic Experience

Anticonvulsant properties of methanol leaf extract of Laggera Aurita Linn. F. (Asteraceae) in laboratory animals

Correlates of Anxiety Disorder among Patients with Seizure Disorders in a Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Nigeria

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