Personality traits, illness behaviors, and psychiatric comorbidity in individuals with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES), epilepsy, and other nonepileptic seizures (oNES): Differentiating between the conditions

Epilepsy & Behavior : E&B
Gabriele Vilyte, Chrisma Pretorius

Abstract

The study aimed to investigate if South African individuals with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) differ from individuals with epileptic seizures (ES) and other nonepileptic seizures (oNES) in terms of demographic and seizure characteristics, personality traits, illness behaviors, and depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) comorbidity in statistically significant ways; and if so, to test if these differences can be utilized in raising suspicion of PNES as the differential diagnosis to epilepsy and oNES in practice. Data were analyzed from 29 adults with seizure complaints recruited using convenience sampling from a private and a government hospital with video-electroencephalography (vEEG) technology. A quantitative double-blind convenient sampling comparative design was used. A demographic and seizure questionnaire, the NEO Five Factor Inventory-3 (NEO-FFI-3), an abbreviated version of Illness Behavior Questionnaire (IBQ), and the Beck Anxiety Inventory - Primary Care (BAI-PC) were administered. Cronbach's alphas, analysis of variance (ANOVA), cross-tabulation, Fisher exact test, and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analyses were performed on the dataset. The total sample consisted of 29 pa...Continue Reading

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