Metacognitive beliefs and processes contribute to anxiety and depression are often associated with Emotional and behavioral disorders in patients with epilepsy. Despite extensive s tudies revealed that anxiety and depression contribute to the s tigma of patients with epilepsy, little is known on the relationship between metacognition and s tigma in epileptic patients. The aim of this s tudy was to explore the relationship between metacognition beliefs, anxiety, and depression with the s tigma of epilepsy. Materials and Methods: In this intermittent-descriptive s tudy, 100 patients, both male and female, with epilepsy treated in different health care centers in khoram-Abad city in 2018 were selected. A short survey on meta-cognition beliefs, a ques tionnaire of anxiety and depression, analogy of s tigma epilepsy, and a ques tionnaire of comprehension diseases were used. Results: The results showed that anxiety and cognitive confidence predicted the s tigma in epileptic patients. Furthermore, there is a positive correlation between anxiety and s tigma and a negative correlation between cognitive confidence and s tigma were observed in these patients. The regression analysis revealed that in the firs t s tep 44% of s tigma variance was predicted by anxiety, and in the second s tep 52% of s tigma variance was predicted by anxiety and cognitive predictor variables. Conclusion: Our data indicate that a high-level of anxiety and a low-level of cognitive confidence could predict the s tigma of patients with epilepsy.
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