This study aimed to describe the quality of adherence to mental health care follow-up and the mental health caregiver-patient relationship after diagnosis of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES). Methods: We conducted an ancillary study of a multicenter prospective study. Patients (n = 108) received a standardized diagnostic explanation of PNES following video-EEG. They were referred to their community mental health centers or to a private psychiatrist/psychologist, who received written information about PNES and the study. Data collected about adherence to care (follow-up started or not, consensual and those who withdrew non-consensually, ongoing follow-up) were cross-tabulated from patients and care structures by telephone at 6, 12, 18 and 24 months after diagnosis. At M24, we collected reasons for stopping follow-up by phone using a predefined 9-item questionnaire. We also assessed the perception of the caregiver-patient relationship among patients who started follow-up and their mental health caregivers with a simple questionnaire based on five dimensions: feeling comfortable, continuity of care, content of therapy sessions, effectiveness of therapy sessions, and the patient's overall assessment of the follow-up. Results: From M6 to M24, ongoing follow-up decreased from 64.8 to 25.8%, while the "not following initial recommandations" group of patients (those who never started follow-up and those who withdrew non-consensually) increased from 35.2 to 64.9%. We found two main reasons for stopping follow-up: lack of interest and feeling better. Adherent patients had an overall more positive view of their therapy than caregivers. Conclusion: Only a third of PNES patients adhered to a mental health care program and felt comfortable in the caregiver-patient relationship. Solutions need to be found to help patients understand the interest of follow-up therapy and help mental health caregivers improve their feeling of competence.

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Thin layers of nanoporous silicon PS were synthesized by anodic etching, in order to develop photovoltaic cells. We proposed a diluted concentration of hydrofluoric acid with different etching current densities (1, 3, 5 mA/cm 2) on a fairly short time anodization. Observations by scanning electron microscope, electrical measurements and optical measurements revealed that the structural properties of PS layers depended on strong conditions of prints. The reverse and forward component of the I-V characteristics showed an appropriate method to explore and extract the parameters of the diode ideality factor n. The optimum conditions of formation of PS were: HF concentration of 1% and an etching current density of 1 mA/cm 2. Unlike silicon, which has a low absorption of short visible wavelengths, it was shown that the PS had wide energy gap of ≈ 2 eV, and a marked improvement in the absorption between 400 and 600 nm. This property has been used to optimize the response of the solar cell Ni/PS/c-Si. Efficiency performance close to 4.2% was obtained with a V oc of 400 mV, and fill factor of 46%. The solar cell exhibited better response than the reference cell Ni/c-Si. These results show that PS/c-Si heterojunction has a potential for photovoltaic applications.