Ψυχοκοινωνικά χαρακτηριστικά ασθενών με επιληψία στην Ελλάδα
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Επιληψία ; Στατιστικές μέθοδοιAbstract
In this thesis we analysed a part of a questionnaire answered from 96 epileptic patients at the «Evaggelismos» Hospital, in order to detect the psychological, social and clinical characteristics of epileptic patients in Greece, to identify the main differences presented as compared to a similar research (Nikolakis, 2010) which related to data for the period 2008-2009 and to predict the occurrence of epileptic seizures in the bimester after filling the questionnaire. The questions of the questionnaire which were analysed cover the social life, the skills, the interpersonal relations and the demographic, social, psychological and clinical characteristics of epileptic patients.
The statistical methods which were used in this thesis were univariate descriptive analysis, hypothesis tests for the difference of two independent populations, hypothesis tests for the difference between two independent population proportions, chi square tests, logistic regression, decision tree with the algorithm Conditional Inference Decision Trees and association rule mining with the algorithm Apriori.
The results of this analysis showed that epilepsy is not obstacle for patients’ life in Greece, that the quality of patients’ life have improved significantly during the last decade and also that the main factor which affects the occurrence of epileptic seizures in the bimester after filling the questionnaire is the occurrence of epileptic seizures in the last year.