Publications by authors named "Hannah K Villarreal"
Objective: Contrary to patients, the psychological impact of functional seizures to caregivers has not been adequately investigated. This study aimed to evaluate the rates and determinants of depression and anxiety in caregivers of patients with functional seizures.
Methods: Patients with functional seizures and their caregivers completed surveys about demographic, disease-related, and psychosocial characteristics.
Background: Patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) can be semiologically dichotomized into those with hyperkinetic and those with paucikinetic events. The objective of this study was to compare characteristics of patients with diverse phenomenology and their caregivers to evaluate for differences that could inform about disease nosology.
Methods: Patients and caregivers monitored at the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit completed surveys about sociodemographic and disease characteristics, treatment and health care utilization, physical and psychosocial impact, and epilepsy knowledge.
This study evaluated the rates of depression and anxiety and their determinants in adult persons with epilepsy and their caregivers. Both completed surveys about demographic, disease-related, and psychosocial characteristics. One hundred patients and caregivers participated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Functional seizures (FS) are often misclassified as epileptic seizures (ES). This study aimed to create an easy to use but comprehensive screening tool to guide further evaluation of patients presenting with this diagnostic dilemma.
Materials And Methods: Demographic, clinical and diagnostic data were collected on patients admitted for video-EEG monitoring for clarification of their diagnosis.
There is limited information on disparities of people with epilepsy (PWE) and, foremost, their caregivers. The objective of this study was to comprehensively compare between PWE and caregivers with low socioeconomic status (SES) and those with high SES for disparities in demographic and epilepsy characteristics, treatment and health care utilization, physical and psychosocial impact, and knowledge about epilepsy. PWE and caregivers completed surveys about the aforementioned outcomes during their epilepsy clinic visit or epilepsy monitoring unit admission.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Caregiver burden in psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) is an important but understudied reality. The objective of this exploratory study was to quantify caregiver burden in PNES and to identify the patient and caregiver characteristics associated with it.
Methods: PNES patients and their identified caregivers completed surveys about demographic, disease related and psychosocial characteristics during their Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU) admission.
Objective: There is scarce literature on stigma in families living with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES). Using a cohort of patients with epileptic seizures (ES) and their caregivers as controls, we aimed to quantify the level of patient and caregiver stigma in PNES and identify associations of patient and caregiver characteristics with it.
Methods: Patients with PNES and ES and their caregivers completed surveys about demographic, clinical, and psychosocial characteristics.
Objective: There is no information on disparities of patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) and their caregivers. The objective of this exploratory study is to compare patients with PNES and caregivers with low socioeconomic status (SES) with those of high SES for disparities in healthcare use, seizures, medication adverse effects, psychosocial impact, and knowledge about epilepsy.
Methods: Patients with PNES and caregivers completed surveys about the aforementioned outcomes during their Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU) admission.