The combined burden of cognitive, executive function, and psychosocial problems in children with epilepsy: a population‐based study
Open Access
- 11 July 2008
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
- Vol. 50 (7), 530-536
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8749.2008.03015.x
Abstract
The combined burden of psychosocial (Achenbach scales), cognitive (Raven matrices), and executive function (EF) problems was studied in a population-based sample of 6- to 12-year-old children with epilepsy (n=162; 99 males, 63 females) and in an age- and sex-matched control group (n=107; 62 males, 45 females). Approximately 35% of the children with epilepsy had severe non-verbal cognitive problems. In those that did not, mild cognitive problems (26% vs 11%, p=0.005), EF problems (31% vs 11%, pppp<0.001 respectively). Excluding those having remote symptomatic epilepsy aetiology did not change the problem load significantly for the children with epilepsy with the important exception that having severe non-verbal problems was approximately halved from 35 to 18%. In 30 children with benign epilepsy of childhood with centrotemporal spikes, mild cognitive problems were somewhat more common, but psychosocial and EF problems were similar compared with control children.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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