Assessment of parent reported quality of life in children with epilepsy from Northern India: A cross-sectional study

Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 17-20

  Arya, Vandana ^a   Gehlawat, Virender Kumar ^a   Kaushik, Jaya Shankar ^a   Gathwala, Geeta ^a  

^a POST GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Children; epilepsy; quality of life; socio economic status

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HELPLESSNESS; HUMAN; INDIA; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; PARENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE IN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY QUESTIONNAIRE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF ESTEEM; SIMPLE PARTIAL SEIZURE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL STIGMA; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TONIC SEIZURE;

EID: 84899704494     PISSN: 18171745     EISSN: 19983948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1817-1745.131473     Document Type: Article

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