title: [Investigation of psychological state and its influencing factors in children with epilepsy].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the psychological state of children with epilepsy and analyze its influencing factors.
  
  
  METHODS
  The Mental Health Scale for Child and Adolescent was used to survey 113 children with epilepsy and 114 normal children to evaluate and compare their psychological state. Questionnaires were used to investigate the general status of all subjects and the disease condition and treatment of children with epilepsy. The possible influencing factors for the psychological state of children with epilepsy were analyzed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The mental health status of children with epilepsy was poorer than that of normal children in cognition, thinking, emotion, will-behavior, and personality traits (P<0.05). Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that family education, family relations, seizure frequency, seizure duration, EEG epileptiform discharges in the last six months, and number of types of antiepileptic drugs were correlated with the psychological state of children with epilepsy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is a wider range of psychological health problems in children with epilepsy than in normal children. Poor family living environment, poor seizure control, and use of many antiepileptic drugs are the risk factors affecting the psychological state of children with epilepsy. Improving family living environment, controlling seizures, and monotherapy help to improve the psychological state of children with epilepsy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, First People's Hospital of Nantong, Nantong, Jiangsu 226001, China. nthuihui@126.com.
authors.forename: Jin-Hua
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Sheng-Li
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Fei
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hong
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000209:etiology