COVID-19 vaccine take-up rate and safety in adults with epilepsy: Data from a multicenter study in China.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study was undertaken to investigate the COVID-19 vaccine uptake rate and possible postvaccination effects in adults with epilepsy.

Methods

We invited adults with epilepsy attending three centers in China from July 24 to August 31, 2021 to participate in this study. We also asked age- and sex-matched controls among people attending for other chronic neuropsychiatric conditions and healthy controls accompanying people with illness attending the hospitals to participate. We excluded people who, under the national guidelines, had evident contradictions to vaccination. Participants were interviewed face-to-face using questionnaires. Vaccine uptake and postvaccine adverse events among the people with epilepsy were compared with those with neuropsychiatric conditions

SUBMITTER: Lu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9011689 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature