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A Multimodal Imaging- and Stimulation-based Method of Evaluating Connectivity-related Brain Excitability in Patients with Epilepsy
Published on: November 13, 2016
The impact of epilepsy on quality of life: a qualitative analysis
Malachy Bishop1, Chase A Allen
1Rehabilitation Counseling Program, Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling Department, 220 Taylor Education Building, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA. mbishop@pop.uky.edu
Abstract:
The assessment and understanding of epilepsy's impact on an individual's quality of life (QOL) is increasingly being recognized as an important component of clinical care. Because the impact of epilepsy can span a range of clinically important functional and psychosocial domains, QOL as a model for understanding epilepsy's impact should be inclusive of the many life domains that are important to the individual. In this study a community-based sample of 46 adults with epilepsy were surveyed to identify the QOL domains that are important to persons with epilepsy, the factors that contribute to and detract from QOL, and the ways that epilepsy is perceived to impact QOL. A multidomain structure of quality of life emerged from the qualitative data analysis. Epilepsy was seen as having both a direct and an indirect impact on QOL, by directly affecting QOL domains and by affecting those factors that contribute to QOL.
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