title: Quality of life in pregnant women with epilepsy versus women with epilepsy.
abstract: It is assumed that 25% of patients with epilepsy are women of fertile age and 0.3% to 0.6% of all children are born of mothers with epilepsy. The aim of this study was to evaluate the quality of life on pregnant with epilepsy and compare with non-pregnant women with epilepsy. We evaluated two groups (Experimental Group--29 pregnant women with epilepsy and Control Group--30 women with epilepsy); they were attended at the HC/UNICAMP. The patients had three meetings to carry out and implement the anamnesis and the application of QQV-65. There were no significant differences in the measurement of quality of life when comparing both groups. However, when we analyzed individually in the pre- and post-partum periods, we observed significant differences in health aspects (p=0.0495), physical (p=0.02868) and emotional (p=0.0253) dimensions in QQV-65. This study shows that pregnancy could be interpreted as a stressor. In late pregnancy when this stressor was removed, women with epilepsy had improvement in their quality of life.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, University of Medicine, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil. lulunardi@gmail.com
authors.forename: Luciane Lorencetti
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Lunardi
authors.forename: Alberto Luiz Cunha da
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Costa
authors.forename: Carlos Alberto Mantovani
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Guerreiro
authors.forename: Elisabete Abib Pedroso de
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Souza
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000523:psychology*; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult