A comparison of quality of life and burden over caregivers of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and juvenile myoclonic epilepsy;Comparação da qualidade de vida e sobrecarga dos cuidadores de pacientes com epilepsia por esclerose mesial temporal e epilepsia mioclônica juvenil

Journal of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 71-76

  Westphal, Ana Carolina ^a,b   Alonso, Neide Barreira ^a   Da Silva, Tatiana Indelicato ^a   Azevedo, Auro Mauro ^a   Caboclo, Luís Otávio Sales Ferreira ^a   Garzon, Eliana ^a   Sakamoto, Américo Ceiki ^a   Yacubian, Elza Márcia Targas ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Rua Borges Lagoa   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Burden caregiver; Epilepsy; Quality of life; SF 36

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SHORT FORM 36; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 33846796278     PISSN: 16762649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s1676-26492005000200001     Document Type: Article

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