Long-term behavioural outcomes after paediatric convulsive status epilepticus: a population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To describe behavioural and psychiatric outcomes of children within 10 years of convulsive status epilepticus (CSE).

Method

Children originally identified by the population-based North London Convulsive Status Epilepticus in Childhood Surveillance Study were followed-up between July 2009 and February 2013. They were grouped into epilepsy- and non-epilepsy-related CSE, and compared with population norms and healthy controls using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire; the Autism Spectrum Screening Questionnaire; and the Swanson, Nolan, and Pelham questionnaire. Children who scored above recommended clinical cut-offs on any scale were invited for a neuropsychiatric assessment. Regression models were fitted to identify clinically relevant covariates associated with b

SUBMITTER: Martinos MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5900729 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature