Koirala, Naba RajKhalid, AbdulRegmi, Shishir KPokharel, Anupam2026-07-222026-07-221999https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14572/7018Naba Raj Koirala FCPS, Teaching Assistant, Department of Psychiatry & Mental Hospital, Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal Abdul Khalid MD (Psych.), Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry & Mental Health, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hosipital, Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal Shishir K. Regmi FCPS, Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry & Mental Health, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal Anupam Pokharel MBBS, Resident, Department of Psychiatry & Mental Health, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, NepalKeywords: Epilepsy, TUTH, ICD-10 Abstract There have been only few studies on Epilepsy in Nepal. The present work was undertaken with the aim of studying socio-demographic and diagnostic profile of patients presenting with Epilepsy in Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu. It was a prospective, cross-sectional, descriptive study, and the sample comprised all patients of Epilepsy attending the Psychiatric Outpatient Department of Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital for the first time during one year study period from August 1997 to July 1998. The majority of the patients were less than 40 years of age (91.98%), more than half of the patients were single and students outnumbered other professionals. Most of the patients were diagnosed as Generalized idiopathic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes (85.02%). Only one-fourth of the patients sought treatment within one month of the onset of epilepsy. There is a need for general public education programmes to create awareness and destigmatize the disease so that early recognition and management maybe possible.en-USEpilepsyTUTHICD-10Article