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Evaluation of quality of life of carers of Italian spinoni with idiopathic epilepsy

The carers of all UK Kennel Club registered Italian spinoni (IS) born between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2011 were invited to participate in the study. The carers of 47 of 63 IS diagnosed with idiopathic epilepsy (IE) returned the questionnaire, which included numerous questions on various asp...

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Autores principales: De Risio, Luisa, Freeman, Julia, Shea, Anita
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4932266/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27403328
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/vetreco-2016-000174
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description The carers of all UK Kennel Club registered Italian spinoni (IS) born between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2011 were invited to participate in the study. The carers of 47 of 63 IS diagnosed with idiopathic epilepsy (IE) returned the questionnaire, which included numerous questions on various aspects of IE including the effect of IE on the dog's carer's quality of life. Median epileptic seizure number in the three months before study end or death was five epileptic seizures, 72 per cent of dogs had cluster seizures, 94 per cent of dogs were administered one or more antiepileptic medications and 36 per cent of dogs were euthanased due to poorly controlled IE. Seventy-one per cent and 65 per cent of the participants were moderately to extremely worried about the frequency and severity of their dog's epileptic seizures, respectively. Caring for an IS with IE caused conflict with the carer's work, education or daily activity often or very often in 50 per cent of the participants. Overall the limitations on the carer's life due to caring for an IS with IE were considered as very to extremely bothersome in 29 per cent of the participants, a little to moderately bothersome in 40 per cent of the participants and not at all bothersome in 31 per cent of the participants.
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spelling pubmed-49322662016-07-11 Evaluation of quality of life of carers of Italian spinoni with idiopathic epilepsy De Risio, Luisa Freeman, Julia Shea, Anita Vet Rec Open Companion or Pet Animals The carers of all UK Kennel Club registered Italian spinoni (IS) born between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2011 were invited to participate in the study. The carers of 47 of 63 IS diagnosed with idiopathic epilepsy (IE) returned the questionnaire, which included numerous questions on various aspects of IE including the effect of IE on the dog's carer's quality of life. Median epileptic seizure number in the three months before study end or death was five epileptic seizures, 72 per cent of dogs had cluster seizures, 94 per cent of dogs were administered one or more antiepileptic medications and 36 per cent of dogs were euthanased due to poorly controlled IE. Seventy-one per cent and 65 per cent of the participants were moderately to extremely worried about the frequency and severity of their dog's epileptic seizures, respectively. Caring for an IS with IE caused conflict with the carer's work, education or daily activity often or very often in 50 per cent of the participants. Overall the limitations on the carer's life due to caring for an IS with IE were considered as very to extremely bothersome in 29 per cent of the participants, a little to moderately bothersome in 40 per cent of the participants and not at all bothersome in 31 per cent of the participants. BMJ Publishing Group 2016-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4932266/ /pubmed/27403328 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/vetreco-2016-000174 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://www.bmj.com/company/products-services/rights-and-licensing/ This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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title Evaluation of quality of life of carers of Italian spinoni with idiopathic epilepsy
title_full Evaluation of quality of life of carers of Italian spinoni with idiopathic epilepsy
title_fullStr Evaluation of quality of life of carers of Italian spinoni with idiopathic epilepsy
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation of quality of life of carers of Italian spinoni with idiopathic epilepsy
title_short Evaluation of quality of life of carers of Italian spinoni with idiopathic epilepsy
title_sort evaluation of quality of life of carers of italian spinoni with idiopathic epilepsy
topic Companion or Pet Animals
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4932266/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27403328
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/vetreco-2016-000174
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