title: Everyday verbal memory and pediatric epilepsy.
abstract: This study addressed the reliability and validity of reports of everyday verbal memory with a sample of 132 pediatric patients with epilepsy. Each patient and one parent completed a questionnaire on everyday verbal memory comprising two scales assessing learning/retrieval and prospective memory. Each patient was also administered tests of memory, attention, and academic skills. Information about attention, mood, and academic performance was obtained from parent and teacher report, as well as self-report. Memory test scores were correlated with children's reports of learning and retrieval in everyday activities, but were not significantly associated with reports of prospective memory. Reports of everyday memory were found to be reliable and predictive of academic performance. Performance on tests of memory, conversely, was unrelated to reports of academic performance. Reports of everyday memory may, therefore, provide more useful information than tests when evaluating the effects of epilepsy and its treatments.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA. mlchapie@texaschildrenshospital.org
authors.forename: Lynn
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chapieski
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Evankovich
authors.forename: Merrill
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hiscock
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Collins
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D002648:Child; D004522:Educational Status; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014706:Verbal Learning / Q000502:physiology*