Abstract

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  • In many cases, the exact cause has not known

  • What a patient with epilepsy experiences during a seizure will depend on which part of the brain has affected, and how widely and quickly it spreads from that area

  • Intimate partner violence (IPV), defined as the physical, sexual, psychological abuse, and control perpetrated against an intimate partner, has highly prevalent and cannot ignore for epilepsy epidemic

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Introduction

The exact cause has not known. Some people have inherited genetic factors that make epilepsy more likely to occur. Women who experience IPV have higher odds of depression, anxiety and other mental health disorders, [1] sexually transmitted infections including HIV, [2] chronic pain disorders and gynaecologic morbidity among other chronic disease states lead the epileptic seizure (“fit”). Their children suffer from greater symptom of epilepsy morbidity and mortality. In India, national estimates suggest decreasing frequency, one in three women still report having been abused by their spouses during their lifetime This figure has likely an underestimate of the abuse women suffer post-epileptic seizer or other members of the husband’s family, hereafter termed domestic violence (DV). Those who have, identified the following risk factors: age, low educational attainment of self and spouse, young age of marriage, having a love marriage versus arranged marriage, additional dowry request from marital family, employment, changes in her own or her spouse’s employment status, residence in a joint family, renting versus owning one’s residence, fewer rooms in the household and shared bathrooms, accepting attitudes toward wife beating

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