[Epileptic syndromes and seizures and their relationship with work: a prospective ambulatory study in 412 epileptic patients].
This study aims to evaluate, prospectively, the epileptic syndromes and seizures types upon work based on a sample of 412 out-patients from Hospital de Base, São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil. It was observed that the epileptic syndromes were significant in relation to the patients' labor skills (p= 0.001): the idiopathic syndromes showed less prejudiced, while the symptomatic was more. The seizures types also had some influence in relation to the patients' labor skills (p=0.016): the generalized non-convulsive seizures had no involvement; the simple partial and the non-classified had moderately involvement; and the simple partial seizures evolving to complex and tonic-clonic generalized were the seizures which mostly have taken the patients away from work. The seizure severity was also analyzed.
Borges
M A
MA
Serviço de Neurofisiologia Clínica, Faculdade de Medicina Rio Preto. maocrib@wm.com.br
De Marchi
N S
NS
Sato
A K
AK
Aleixo
F V
FV
Cordeiro
J A
JA
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004651:Employment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013577:Syndrome; D014937:Work / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014938:Work Capacity Evaluation