TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Driving rate in patients with seizures: epilepsy vs. functional seizures
JO  - Epilepsy and behavior
A1  - Asadi-Pooya, Ali A.
A1  - Farazdaghi, Mohsen
SP  - e107985
EP  - e107985
VL  - 119
IS  - 
N2  - OBJECTIVES: We investigated the rate of driving in patients with seizures [i.e., epilepsy or functional seizures (FS)]. We also investigated the factors that may be associated with NOT driving a motor vehicle. <br><br>METHODS: This was a retrospective study of an electronic database of patients with seizures that has been built prospectively over more than a decade. All patients, 20 years of age or older, with a diagnosis of idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE), focal epilepsy, or FS were studied at the outpatient epilepsy clinic at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran, from 2008 until 2020. <br><br>RESULTS: One thousand four hundred and ninety-two patients were studied (918 patients with focal epilepsy, 338 people with IGE, and 236 individuals with FS). In total, 387 patients (25.9%) reported driving a motor vehicle. Driving rate in patients with IGE was 26.9%, in people with focal epilepsy was 27.0%, and in individuals with FS was 20.3%; the difference was not significant (p = 0.10). Female sex and a younger age at the onset of seizures were significantly associated with not driving a motor vehicle. Being married and having any education were significantly inversely associated with not driving a motor vehicle. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Most patients with seizures (either people with epilepsy or those with FS alike) do not drive a motor vehicle in their routine daily lives. Demographic factors (e.g., sex, marital status, and education) have significant associations with not driving a motor vehicle.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1525-5050
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yebeh.2021.107985
ID  - ref1
ER  -