NCT06792383Recruiting
Psychological and Psychiatric Assessment in Patients Eligible for Epilepsy Surgery
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 12 Feb 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The aim of the study is to describe the socio-demographic, clinical, psychological, and psychiatric characteristics of patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy eligible for epilepsy surgery and any changes in these parameters over time after surgery. Additionally, the study seeks to describe the levels of quality of life, dissociative experiences, prevalence of various psychiatric symptoms, irritability, depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and stigma perception in patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy eligible for epilepsy surgery and any changes over time after surgery.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 180 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 8 Jan 2025
- Start date
- 2 Dec 2020
- Primary completion date
- Dec 2026
- Lead sponsor
- Fondazione I.R.C.C.S. Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta
- Diseases
- Epilepsy
- NCT number
- NCT06792383
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 180
- From 2 Dec 2020 to the primary completion date, Dec 2026
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- Patients with evident and/or diagnosed cognitive or psychiatric disorders that prevent participation in an interview, proper understanding of informed consent, or completion of questionnaires.
Who the study is looking for
- Patients aged 18 or older at the time of enrollment;
- Patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy followed at the Institute for at least 6 months;
- Patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy eligible for epilepsy surgery;
- Patients capable of providing informed consent to participate in the study and for the processing of personal data.
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foundation IRCCS Carlo Besta Neurological Institute Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Milan | Italy | Recruiting |
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