Publications by authors named "L Nakhutina"
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- Suboptimal medication adherence is common among people with epilepsy, with a higher prevalence in racially diverse patients, necessitating a study on their barriers to medication management, negative beliefs about medications, and knowledge gaps.
- A study with 63 predominantly African American and Caribbean American participants identified four major barriers to medication self-management, including inconsistent dosing and a lack of planning for refills.
- Results showed that many participants held negative beliefs about their medications, with poorer self-management linked to stronger feelings that medications are harmful; better acceptance of medication correlated with proper dosing habits.
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- Depression is commonly seen in people with epilepsy (PWE), especially among people of color (POC) and those with difficult-to-control seizures.
- A study involving 55 PWE, mostly from diverse backgrounds, found that 41.8% had significant depressive symptoms, linked to negative views about their epilepsy.
- These negative illness perceptions explained 48% of the differences in depression severity, highlighting the need for future research on how these perceptions affect mental health over time and ways to potentially improve them through interventions.
Introduction: Anxiety disproportionately affects people with epilepsy (PWE) and leads to poor outcomes. Yet, risk factors are not well understood especially among underserved groups. This cross-sectional study aimed to identify epilepsy-specific predictors of anxiety disorders in predominantly African American and Caribbean American PWE.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Anticholinergic/sedative drug use, measured by the Drug Burden Index (DBI), is linked to cognitive impairment in older adults. Yet, studies on the DBI's association with neuropsychological functioning are lacking, especially in underserved groups at increased risk of cognitive impairment. We examined cross-sectional relationships between total DBI (DBI ) and an age-adjusted analogue (Adj DBI ) with the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) in diverse adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Suboptimal or partial adherence to antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) is an avoidable cause of seizures and deleterious outcomes in epilepsy. As self-rated adherence may be unreliable, suboptimal adherence may go undetected. This study assessed generalizability of a performance-based measure of medication management to patients with intractable epilepsy.
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