Anxiety among Patients with Epilepsy attending Imam ALSadiq General Hospital in Babylon Governorate, Iraq

Volume 20 No 7 (2022)

Bilal Hadi Jawad, Khadija Shaban Hassan , Wahab Razzaq Ebdan

DOI: 10.14704/nq.2022.20.7.NQ33144

Abstract

Background: Anxiety is one of the most frequent psychiatric comorbidities in patients with epilepsy (PWE). People often develop anxiety after epilepsy is diagnosed, or after they have their first seizure. In fact, one common cause of anxiety in epilepsy is the fear of having a seizure.

Keywords

Epilepsy; Anxiety; Prevalence; Babylon

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