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Assessment of parent reported quality of life in children with epilepsy from Northern India: A cross-sectional study

OBJECTIVE: The objective of the following study is to assess parent reported quality of life (QOL) in children with epilepsy and to assess the demographic and clinical factors, which influence the QOL in children with epilepsy. STUDY PARTICIPANTS: We consecutively enrolled 40 children aged from 2 ye...

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Autores principales: Arya, Vandana, Gehlawat, Virender Kumar, Kaushik, Jaya Shankar, Gathwala, Geeta
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4040025/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24891896
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.131473
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author Arya, Vandana
Gehlawat, Virender Kumar
Kaushik, Jaya Shankar
Gathwala, Geeta
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description OBJECTIVE: The objective of the following study is to assess parent reported quality of life (QOL) in children with epilepsy and to assess the demographic and clinical factors, which influence the QOL in children with epilepsy. STUDY PARTICIPANTS: We consecutively enrolled 40 children aged from 2 years to 14 years with active epilepsy who had undergone a comprehensive evaluation for epilepsy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Parents were enquired on baseline demographic variables including age, gender, socio-economic status and parental education. Clinical details of epilepsy including the type of epilepsy, seizure frequency were assessed. QOL was evaluated with the parent reported quality of life in childhood epilepsy (QOLCE) questionnaire. RESULTS: A total of 40 children were enrolled of which 55% (22/40) were males and the mean (standard deviation [SD]) age of enrolled children was 10.6 (2.7) years. The majority came from a rural background (80% [32/40]), were from lower (15 [37.5%]) or middle (23 [57.5%]) socio-economic status, with almost half (22 [55%]) of mothers being educated until high school. The overall mean (SD) QOL score was 66.7 (4.83). Lowest mean (SD) scores were observed in self-esteem (45.2 [7.3]) subscale and subscales with higher QOL scores included control/helplessness (82.1 [8.51]), anxiety (81.6 [12.55]) and social stigma (95.0 [11.6]). Parental education, socio-economic status (P = 0.96), frequency of seizure (P = 0.34) or type of epilepsy (P = 0.92) did not significantly affect the overall QOL among children with epilepsy. CONCLUSION: Our study concluded that overall QOL was compromised in Indian children with epilepsy. Demographic factors like parental education, socio-economic status and clinical factors like frequency of seizure or type of seizure did not significantly affect the QOL of epileptic children.
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spelling pubmed-40400252014-06-02 Assessment of parent reported quality of life in children with epilepsy from Northern India: A cross-sectional study Arya, Vandana Gehlawat, Virender Kumar Kaushik, Jaya Shankar Gathwala, Geeta J Pediatr Neurosci Original Article OBJECTIVE: The objective of the following study is to assess parent reported quality of life (QOL) in children with epilepsy and to assess the demographic and clinical factors, which influence the QOL in children with epilepsy. STUDY PARTICIPANTS: We consecutively enrolled 40 children aged from 2 years to 14 years with active epilepsy who had undergone a comprehensive evaluation for epilepsy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Parents were enquired on baseline demographic variables including age, gender, socio-economic status and parental education. Clinical details of epilepsy including the type of epilepsy, seizure frequency were assessed. QOL was evaluated with the parent reported quality of life in childhood epilepsy (QOLCE) questionnaire. RESULTS: A total of 40 children were enrolled of which 55% (22/40) were males and the mean (standard deviation [SD]) age of enrolled children was 10.6 (2.7) years. The majority came from a rural background (80% [32/40]), were from lower (15 [37.5%]) or middle (23 [57.5%]) socio-economic status, with almost half (22 [55%]) of mothers being educated until high school. The overall mean (SD) QOL score was 66.7 (4.83). Lowest mean (SD) scores were observed in self-esteem (45.2 [7.3]) subscale and subscales with higher QOL scores included control/helplessness (82.1 [8.51]), anxiety (81.6 [12.55]) and social stigma (95.0 [11.6]). Parental education, socio-economic status (P = 0.96), frequency of seizure (P = 0.34) or type of epilepsy (P = 0.92) did not significantly affect the overall QOL among children with epilepsy. CONCLUSION: Our study concluded that overall QOL was compromised in Indian children with epilepsy. Demographic factors like parental education, socio-economic status and clinical factors like frequency of seizure or type of seizure did not significantly affect the QOL of epileptic children. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4040025/ /pubmed/24891896 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.131473 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Arya, Vandana
Gehlawat, Virender Kumar
Kaushik, Jaya Shankar
Gathwala, Geeta
Assessment of parent reported quality of life in children with epilepsy from Northern India: A cross-sectional study
title Assessment of parent reported quality of life in children with epilepsy from Northern India: A cross-sectional study
title_full Assessment of parent reported quality of life in children with epilepsy from Northern India: A cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Assessment of parent reported quality of life in children with epilepsy from Northern India: A cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Assessment of parent reported quality of life in children with epilepsy from Northern India: A cross-sectional study
title_short Assessment of parent reported quality of life in children with epilepsy from Northern India: A cross-sectional study
title_sort assessment of parent reported quality of life in children with epilepsy from northern india: a cross-sectional study
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4040025/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24891896
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.131473
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