Methods
In this controlled clinical trial conducted in a teaching hospital in Zanjan, Iran, 60 patients with epilepsy were selected using simple random sampling and divided randomly into the case group (30 people) and the control group (30 people) using the table of random numbers. We calculated the sample size based on the study conducted by Pramuka et al.on patients with epilepsy and using α = 0.05 and power = 80%. The mean QOL of that study using QOLIE-31-P (see below) was 67.3 ± 2.6 in the case group and 65 ± 2.8 in the control group. The sample size was calculated as 30 in each group