Health-related quality of life using QOLIE-31: Before and after epilepsy surgery a prospective study at a tertiary care center

Neurology India

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 343-348

  Ahmad, Faiz ^a   Tripathi, Manjari ^a   Padma, M ^a   Gaikwad, Shailesh ^a   Gupta, Aditya ^a   Bal, C ^a   Sarkar, Chitra ^a   Gupta, Surya ^a   Wadhawan, Ashima ^a   Sharma, Bhavani ^a   Chandra, Poodipedi ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Epilepsies; Partial surgery or epilepsy; Psychiatric status rating scales or quality of life or severity of illness index or sickness impact profile; Temporal lobe surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; EMOTION; ENGEL GRADING; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE IN EPILEPSY INVENTORY 31; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEIZURE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STUDENT T TEST; TEMPORAL LOBE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36549052142     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.37093     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Ryan R, Kempner K, Emlen AC. The stigma of epilepsy as a self concept. Epilepsia 1980;21:433-44.
2. Rausch R, Crandall PH. Psychological status related to surgical control of temporal lobe seizures. Epilepsia 1982;23:191-202.
3. Calman KC. Quality of life in cancer patients: A hypothesis. J Med Ethics 1984;10:124-7.
4. Engel J Jr. Outcome with respect to epileptic seizures. In: Engel J Jr, editor. Surgical treatment of epilepsies. Raven Press: New York; 1987.
5. Full QUOLIE-31 available from http://www.epilepsy.com/pdfs/qolie_31.pdf.
6. Cramer JA, Perrine K, Devinsky O, Bryant-Comstock L, Meador K, Hermann B. Development and cross cultural translations of a 31 item quality of life in epilepsy inventory. Epilepsia 1998;39:81-8.
7. Golden CJ, Moses JA, Fishburne FJ, Engum E, Lewis GP, Wisniewski AM, et al. Cross-validation of the Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery for the presence, lateralization and localization of brain damage. J Consult Clin Psychol 1981;49:491-507.
8. Vickrey BG, Hays RD, Engel J, Spritzer K, Rogers WH, Rausch R, et al. Outcome assessment for epilepsy surgery: The impact of measuring health-related quality of life. Ann Neurol 1995;37:158-66.
9. Birbeck GL, Sehyun K, Hays RD, Vickrey BG. Quality of life measures in epilepsy: How well can they detect change over time? Neurology 2000;54:1822-7.
10. Cramer JA, Arrigo C, Hammee GV, Bromfield EB. Comparison between the QILOE-31 and derived QOLIE-10 in a clinical trial of levatiracetam. Epilepsy Res 2000;41:29-38.
11. Kim YH, Kim HI. Assessing quality of life for the measurement of outcome after epilepsy. surgery. Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 1995;49:S304-5.
12. Hermann BP, Wyler AR, Somes G. Preoperative psychological adjustments and surgical outcome are determinants of psychosocial status after anterior temporal lobectomy. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1992;55:491-6.
13. Rose KJ, Derry PA, Wiebe S, McLachian RS. Determinants of health related quality of life after temporal lobe epilepsy surgery. Qual Life Res 1996;5:395-402.
14. Selai CE, Elstner K, Trimble MR. Quality of life pre and post epilepsy surgery. Epilepsy Res 2000;38:67-74.
15. Markand ON, Salanova V, Whelihan E, Emsley CL. Health related quality of life outcome in medically refractory epilepsy treated with anterior temporal lobectomy. Epilepsia 2000;41:749-59.
16. Kellett MW, Smith DF, Baker GA, Chadwick DW. Quality of life after epilepsy surgery. J Neurol Neorosurg Psychiatry 1997;63:52-8.
17. Smith D, Baker GA, Jacoby A, Chadwick DW. The contribution of the measurement of seizure severity to quality of life research. Qual Life Res 1995;4:143-58.
18. Mihara Y, Inoue Y, Watanabe Y, Matsuda K, Tottori T, Hiyoshi T, et al. Improvement in quality of life following resective surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy: Results of patients and family assessments. Jpn J Psychiatry Neurol 1994;48:221-9.
19. Taylor DC, Falconer MA. Clinical, socio-economic and psychological changes after temporal lobectomy for epilepsy. Br J Psychiatry 1968;114:1247-61.
20. Seidman-Ripley JG, Bound VK, Andermann F, Olivier A, Gloor P, Feindel WH. Psychosocial consequences of postoperative seizure relief. Epillepsia 1993;34:248-54.
21. Bexendale SA, Thonpson PJ. "If I didn't have epilepsy...": Patient expectations of epilepsy surgery. J Epilepsy 1996;9:274-81.
22. Weiss AA. Criteria of prediction of successful rehabilitation after temporal lobectomy from pre-operative psychological investigation. Isr Ann Psychiatr Relat Discip 1965;3:65-72.
23. Vickrey BG, Hays RD, Graber J, Rausch R, Engel J, Brook RH. A health related quality of life instrument for patients evaluated for epilepsy surgery. Med Care 1992;30:299-319.
24. Vickrey BG, Hays RD, Rausch R, Suthering WW, Engel JE, Brok RH. Quality of life of epilepsy surgery patients as compared with outpatients with hypertension, diabetes, heart disease or depressive symptoms. Eplilepsia 1994;35:597-607.
25. Mrabet H, Mrabet A, Zouari B, Ghachem R. Health-related quality of life of people with epilepsy compared with a general reference population: A Tunisian study. Epilepsia 2004;45:838-43.
26. Baker GA, Jacoby A, Gorry J, Doughty J, Ellina V; SIGN Group. Quality of life of people with epilepsy in Iran, the Gulf and Near East. Epilepsia 2005;46:132-40.
27. Mikati MA, Comair YG, Rahi A. Normalization of quality of life three years after temporal lobectomy: A controlled study. Epilepsia 2006;47:928-33.