Behavioural comorbidity in Tanzanian children with epilepsy: A community-based case-control study

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1135-1142

  Burton, Kathryn ^a,b   Rogathe, Jane ^a   Hunter, Ewan ^c   Burton, Matthew ^a,d   Swai, Mark ^a   Todd, Jim ^d,e   Neville, Brian ^b   Walker, Richard ^c   Newton, Charles ^c,e,f,g  

^a KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL CENTRE   (Tanzania)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTH TYNESIDE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^f MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMMUNITY CARE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; TANZANIA;

ADOLESCENT; ANTICONVULSANTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEIZURES; TANZANIA;

EID: 81355151560     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2011.04109.x     Document Type: Article

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