Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on characteristics of functional (psychogenic) seizures.
J Psychosom Res
; 147: 110514, 2021 08.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1230633
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
We investigated whether the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the clinical characteristics of patients with functional seizure (FS) (at the time of diagnosis).METHODS:
In a retrospective study of a prospectively developed and maintained database, all patients diagnosed with FS before and during the COVID-19 pandemic were studied at the outpatient epilepsy clinic at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran, from December 2008 until February 2021.RESULTS:
Three hundred and eighty-eight patients were studied. Three hundred and sixty-four patients (94%) were diagnosed before and 24 persons (6%) during the pandemic. Patients diagnosed during the COVID-19 pandemic less frequently had generalized motor seizures [odds ratio (OR) 0.30, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.12-0.77; p = 0.012] and had higher seizure frequencies (OR 1.00, 95% CI 1.00-1.01; p = 0.044). Functional seizures were inversely associated with the education level as a trend during the COVID-19 pandemic (OR 0.36, 95% CI 0.13-1.01; p = 0.052).CONCLUSION:
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the characteristics of patients with FS (at the time of diagnosis). Larger and multi-center studies are needed to investigate the links and associations between the COVID-19 pandemic and characteristics of FS.Keywords
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Seizures
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Pandemics
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Qualitative research
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Randomized controlled trials
Topics:
Long Covid
Limits:
Adult
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
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Young adult
Language:
English
Journal:
J Psychosom Res
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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