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Depression and anxiety in children with benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BCECTS)

BACKGROUND: Elevated rates of affective disturbance in children with benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BCECTS) have been reported. However, it remains unclear how anxiety and depression are related to epilepsy, and it is unknown whether these mood disorders are influenced by the...

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Autores principales: Liu, Xinjie, Han, Qizheng
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4987983/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27530338
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-016-0670-2
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description BACKGROUND: Elevated rates of affective disturbance in children with benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BCECTS) have been reported. However, it remains unclear how anxiety and depression are related to epilepsy, and it is unknown whether these mood disorders are influenced by the use of antiepileptic drugs. In the present report, we performed a prospective study designed to evaluate affective disorders (anxiety and depression) without the bias of antiepileptic drug treatment in 89 children with BCECTS, based on self-reporting. Furthermore, we sought to determine whether clinical factors, such as age, disease course, seizure frequency, and spike wave index (SWI), were related to the psychological profiles. METHODS: Patients with BCECTS (n = 89) and healthy matched controls (n = 75) were included in this study. The Depression Self-Rating Scale for Children (DSRSC) and the Screen for Child Anxiety-Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) were completed by the children. RESULTS: None of the children met criteria for clinically significant anxiety or depression. However, the children with BCECTS had significantly higher depression and anxiety scores compared with children in the control group. We found no significant differences in depression or anxiety between the left, right, and bilateral lobe groups. The DSRSC scores were similar between the children with partial seizures and those with secondarily generalized seizures. Similarly, there were no significant differences in the SCARED scores between these two groups. However, the DSRSC and SCARED scores were positively correlated with age, seizure frequency, SWI, and disease course. CONCLUSIONS: The children with BCECTS had an increased likelihood of depression and anxiety, and these higher rates were unrelated to seizure type or epileptic focus, but were positively correlated with age, seizure frequency, SWI, and disease course.
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spelling pubmed-49879832016-08-18 Depression and anxiety in children with benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BCECTS) Liu, Xinjie Han, Qizheng BMC Pediatr Research Article BACKGROUND: Elevated rates of affective disturbance in children with benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BCECTS) have been reported. However, it remains unclear how anxiety and depression are related to epilepsy, and it is unknown whether these mood disorders are influenced by the use of antiepileptic drugs. In the present report, we performed a prospective study designed to evaluate affective disorders (anxiety and depression) without the bias of antiepileptic drug treatment in 89 children with BCECTS, based on self-reporting. Furthermore, we sought to determine whether clinical factors, such as age, disease course, seizure frequency, and spike wave index (SWI), were related to the psychological profiles. METHODS: Patients with BCECTS (n = 89) and healthy matched controls (n = 75) were included in this study. The Depression Self-Rating Scale for Children (DSRSC) and the Screen for Child Anxiety-Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) were completed by the children. RESULTS: None of the children met criteria for clinically significant anxiety or depression. However, the children with BCECTS had significantly higher depression and anxiety scores compared with children in the control group. We found no significant differences in depression or anxiety between the left, right, and bilateral lobe groups. The DSRSC scores were similar between the children with partial seizures and those with secondarily generalized seizures. Similarly, there were no significant differences in the SCARED scores between these two groups. However, the DSRSC and SCARED scores were positively correlated with age, seizure frequency, SWI, and disease course. CONCLUSIONS: The children with BCECTS had an increased likelihood of depression and anxiety, and these higher rates were unrelated to seizure type or epileptic focus, but were positively correlated with age, seizure frequency, SWI, and disease course. BioMed Central 2016-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4987983/ /pubmed/27530338 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-016-0670-2 Text en © Liu and Han. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title Depression and anxiety in children with benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BCECTS)
title_full Depression and anxiety in children with benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BCECTS)
title_fullStr Depression and anxiety in children with benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BCECTS)
title_full_unstemmed Depression and anxiety in children with benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BCECTS)
title_short Depression and anxiety in children with benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BCECTS)
title_sort depression and anxiety in children with benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (bcects)
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4987983/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27530338
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-016-0670-2
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