Psychiatric comorbidities in Epilepsy: Depression Agoraphobi?a are on the First Line

Aim: Psychiatric comorbidity in epileptic patients is quite frequent. Our study was designed to investigate depression, anxiety, social phobia, agoraphobia in cases of epilepsy. Materials and Methods: A total of 150 epileptic patients and 70 controls were ran-domly enrolled to study. Beck depression inventory (BDI), Liebowitz social phobia scale (LSPS) and Panic agoraphobia scale (PAS) were applied to groups.Results: The mean age of the patients was 34±10 years, the number of male-female was 56/94, whereas the control group’s mean age was 33±10 years, number of male-female was 29/41. The duration of disease was more than 10 years in 44.7% of pa-tients and 60.67% was treated with monotherapy. In the patient group, BDI was found to be 15.18 ± 12.25 and 10.87 ± 9.06 in the control group (p = 0.0038). There was no statistically significant difference between the groups in terms of LSPS. When the groups were evaluated according to PAS, agoraphobia findings were found in 29.33% of the patients and 24% of the control group (p = 0.002). The rate of agoraphobia was found to be 84% in females in the patient group.Conclusion: Depression and agoraphobia were more common in epileptic patients than in the control group, and the rate of agoraphobia was higher in women.