Depression and anxiety disorder among epileptic people at Amanuel Specialized Mental Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Tegegne, Minale Tareke ^a   Mossie, Tilahun Belete ^b   Awoke, Andargie Abate ^a   Assaye, Ashagre Molla ^c   Gebrie, Belete Temitm ^d   Eshetu, Desalegn Asmare ^e  

^a BAHIR DAR UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b MEKELLE UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^d International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas ICARDA   (Ethiopia)

^e Debre Birhan Referral Hospital   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIVORCED PERSON; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPILEPSY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; FREQUENCY OF SEIZURE; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; ONSET AGE; OUTPATIENT; POLYPHARMACY; READING; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL STIGMA; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; WIDOWED PERSON; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EPILEPSY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SOCIAL STIGMA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84940472898     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12888-015-0589-4     Document Type: Article

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