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Quality of life among caregivers of children with epilepsy: A cross‐sectional study at Eastern Nepal

OBJECTIVE: To assess the quality of life among caregivers of children with epilepsy in a tertiary care center of eastern Nepal. METHODS: A cross‐sectional study was conducted among primary caregivers of children with epilepsy, who accompanied their child in child neurology clinic. Consecutive sampli...

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Autores principales: Pokharel, Rita, Poudel, Prakash, Lama, Sami
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7918323/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33681655
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/epi4.12449
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Lama, Sami
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description OBJECTIVE: To assess the quality of life among caregivers of children with epilepsy in a tertiary care center of eastern Nepal. METHODS: A cross‐sectional study was conducted among primary caregivers of children with epilepsy, who accompanied their child in child neurology clinic. Consecutive sampling was done, and 106 respondents were interviewed. Data were collected using World Health Organization Quality of Life‐BREF (WHOQOL‐BREF) scale and analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. Descriptive and Inferential statistics were applied. RESULTS: Mean WHOQOL‐BREF score was 82.25 {standard deviation (SD) ±12. 11}. Transformed scores (0‐100) for each domain were 57.98 ± 14.55 in physical, 55.87 ± 13.16 in psychological, 53.12 ± 13.42 in social, and 52.52 ± 13.04 in environmental domain. Mean score for overall perception of quality of life (QOL) was 2.71 ± 0.79 and was 3.12 ± 0.75 for overall perception of health. Living below poverty line (P = .03) and poor seizure control status of children (P = .46) were significantly associated with lower total QOL score. Living below poverty line was significantly associated with low social relationship (P = .003) and environment domain (<0.001) scores. SIGNIFICANCE: Epilepsy has a multifaceted impact on the lives of affected people. Caring children with epilepsy is associated with enormous psychosocial effects on parents and family members. Caregivers' QOL may affect the treatment and outcome of epilepsy in children. Given the consideration to scarcity of this kind of literature in Nepalese context, this study was conducted.
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spelling pubmed-79183232021-03-05 Quality of life among caregivers of children with epilepsy: A cross‐sectional study at Eastern Nepal Pokharel, Rita Poudel, Prakash Lama, Sami Epilepsia Open Full‐length Original Research OBJECTIVE: To assess the quality of life among caregivers of children with epilepsy in a tertiary care center of eastern Nepal. METHODS: A cross‐sectional study was conducted among primary caregivers of children with epilepsy, who accompanied their child in child neurology clinic. Consecutive sampling was done, and 106 respondents were interviewed. Data were collected using World Health Organization Quality of Life‐BREF (WHOQOL‐BREF) scale and analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. Descriptive and Inferential statistics were applied. RESULTS: Mean WHOQOL‐BREF score was 82.25 {standard deviation (SD) ±12. 11}. Transformed scores (0‐100) for each domain were 57.98 ± 14.55 in physical, 55.87 ± 13.16 in psychological, 53.12 ± 13.42 in social, and 52.52 ± 13.04 in environmental domain. Mean score for overall perception of quality of life (QOL) was 2.71 ± 0.79 and was 3.12 ± 0.75 for overall perception of health. Living below poverty line (P = .03) and poor seizure control status of children (P = .46) were significantly associated with lower total QOL score. Living below poverty line was significantly associated with low social relationship (P = .003) and environment domain (<0.001) scores. SIGNIFICANCE: Epilepsy has a multifaceted impact on the lives of affected people. Caring children with epilepsy is associated with enormous psychosocial effects on parents and family members. Caregivers' QOL may affect the treatment and outcome of epilepsy in children. Given the consideration to scarcity of this kind of literature in Nepalese context, this study was conducted. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-01-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7918323/ /pubmed/33681655 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/epi4.12449 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Epilepsia Open published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International League Against Epilepsy This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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title_fullStr Quality of life among caregivers of children with epilepsy: A cross‐sectional study at Eastern Nepal
title_full_unstemmed Quality of life among caregivers of children with epilepsy: A cross‐sectional study at Eastern Nepal
title_short Quality of life among caregivers of children with epilepsy: A cross‐sectional study at Eastern Nepal
title_sort quality of life among caregivers of children with epilepsy: a cross‐sectional study at eastern nepal
topic Full‐length Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7918323/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33681655
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/epi4.12449
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