History of violence/maltreatment and psychogenic non-epileptic seizures.

Seizure : the Journal of the British Epilepsy Association
Massimiliano BeghiZheng Chang

Abstract

To study the association of earlier violence/maltreatment with the occurrence of PNES in a nationwide population sample. This is a nested case-control study performed using Swedish nationwide registers. Cases were all individuals born in Sweden between 1941 and 2009 with incident PNES between 2001 and 2013 while resident in Sweden according to the Swedish Patient Register. For each case, 10 controls, alive and PNES-free at time of PNES diagnosis of the matched case, were randomly selected from the Swedish Total Population Register, matched on age and sex. To test the specificity of the association, we conducted two similar analyses for epilepsy and dissociative disorder with motor symptoms or deficit, as comparators to PNES. Registers were examined in search of all coded diagnoses of child maltreatment or violence episodes before the index date among the cases and controls. 885 patients received a first diagnosis of PNES. 7.6 % of cases had a history of violence/maltreatment, compared to 1.1 % of controls, giving a crude OR of 7.9 (95 % CI: 3.7-11.0). The ORs decreased but remained significant after adjustment for socio-economic factors (OR = 6.3, 95 % CI: 4.4-9.0) and psychiatric comorbidities (OR = 5.2, 95 % CI: 3.5-7.9). The...Continue Reading

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