title: Quality of life and its influencing factors in patients with post-traumatic epilepsy.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To observe the quality of life in patients with post-traumatic epilepsy and discuss the influencing factors.
  
  
  METHODS
  We assessed 105 patients with post-traumatic epilepsy and 100 healthy people as control using Quality of Life Scale-31 (QOL-31), Self-rating Depressing Scale (SDS) and Self-rating Anxiety Scale (SAS), and conducted retrospective analysis on the depression, anxiety, site of trauma, control of seizure, EEG and therapeutic compliance.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Patients with post-traumatic epilepsy scored much lower than the control group on QOL-31 (P less than 0.01), but higher than the control group on SDS and SAS (P less than 0.01). Multiple regression analysis indicated that major influencing factors on the quality of life were anxiety, therapeutic compliance, depression, poor control of epileptic seizure and site of trauma.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The quality of life in patients with post-traumatic epilepsy has significantly declined. Doctors should pay attention to psychological and mental problems of patients with epilepsy, such as depression and anxiety, enhancing therapeutic compliance and controlling epileptic seizure, which are the keys to improving prognosis.
authors: Department of Neurology, China-Japan Union Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun 130033, China.
authors: Song-Yan
authors: SY
authors: Liu
authors: Xue-Mei
authors: XM
authors: Han
authors: Ya-Yun
authors: YY
authors: Yan
authors: Bo-Jian
authors: BJ
authors: Sun
authors: Ying
authors: Y
authors: Chang
mesh_terms: D004834:Epilepsy, Post-Traumatic / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D011788:Quality of Life; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012189:Retrospective Studies