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Marital status of people with epilepsy in Korea
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- Issue Date
- 2010-11
- Publisher
- W. B. Saunders Co., Ltd.
- Citation
- Seizure : the journal of the British Epilepsy Association, Vol.19 No.9, pp.573-579
- Abstract
- A multicentre face-to-face interview was conducted to identify factors contributing to the marital status of people with epilepsy (PWE) in Korea. The marriage rate of PWEs was only 80% and the divorce rate was more than double that in the general population. Among the single subjects, 34% replied that they were unmarried because of epilepsy, and 76% of divorced PWEs replied that epilepsy was the cause of the divorce. The factors affecting the single and divorced status in PWEs included gender, an earlier onset of seizure and seizure onset before marriage. Not informing the spouse of the disease before marriage for fear of discrimination was not related to disadvantage in marriage negotiation or to divorce. Social stigmatization of epilepsy continues and impacts on the marital status of PWEs in Korea. However, there is no correlation between the perceived and the enacted stigmas of epilepsy. (C) 2010 British Epilepsy Association. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- 1059-1311
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