Health-related quality of life in Russian adults with epilepsy: The effect of socio-demographic and clinical factors

Validity and Reliability of the Quality of Life in Epilepsy Inventory (QOLIE-10) For Turkey

“…Psychosocial interventions are significant for the patients (25,26,29). Psychosocial initiatives are helpful to increase self-control and support positive acceptance of a diagnosis, which will increase the patients' QOL (26,30,31,32).…”

Developing from child to adult: Risk factors for poor psychosocial outcome in adolescents and young adults with epilepsy

“…Epilepsy-specific factors are among the most commonly analyzed predictors for long-term psychosocial outcome in patients with epilepsy [25,26,29,31,[39][40][41][42][43][44][45]. Seizure frequency and the consequences of ongoing seizures are the most predominant epilepsy-related determinants of physical and mental well-being and social participation [26,29,40,[42][43][44][45][46][47].…”

What are the predictors of quality of life of people with epilepsy?

“…It is in good agreement with the findings about negative effect of age on social functioning and cognitive functioning of people with epilepsy reported in the literature. [45] On the other hand, age might be an important predictor of QOL for another reason. It was reported[6] that duration of the epilepsy, which was not investigated in the study being commented on, is a very important factor negatively affecting QOL.…”