Quality of Life in Young Adolescents with Epilepsy: A Case Control Study
Abstract number :
3.457
Submission category :
9. Surgery / 9B. Pediatrics
Year :
2023
Submission ID :
1442
Source :
www.aesnet.org
Presentation date :
12/4/2023 12:00:00 AM
Published date :
Authors :
Presenting Author: Colin Joseph Reilly, PhD – Young Epilepsy
Lara Carr, Research Manager – Young Epilepsy; Helen Cross, Professor – Young Epilepsy; Monica Lakhkanpaul, Professor – UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health; Collette Meades, Research Assitant – Young Epilepsy; Natalie Pearson, Professor – Loughborough University; Kerry Robinson, Paedictrician – Whittington Health NHS Trust, Magdala Avenue, London N19 5NF; Lauren Sherar, Professor – Loughborough University; Joan Idowu, Research Assistant – Young Epilepsy
Rationale:
There is limited data comparing quality of life (QOL) in young adolescents with epilepsy with children without epilepsy. Our aim was to compare self and caregiver rated child quality of life in secondary school aged children with epilepsy and a matched control group without epilepsy. A secondary aim is to explore factors associated with quality of life in the epilepsy group.
Methods:
Children with epilepsy (aged between 11 and 15 years) (n=60), a group of controls (n=49), and their primary caregivers completed a measure of the child’s quality of life (Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory; PedsQL). Comparisons between the epilepsy and control group were undertaken using chi-square analysis and independent t-tests. Linear regression was used to explore factors associated with quality of life in the children with epilepsy. An alpha level of p< 0.05 was used.
Surgery