TY - JOUR AU - Abdollahi, Morteza; Abbasi-Kangevari, Mohsen; Kolahi, Ali-Asghar; Farsar, Ahmad-Reza TI - Comparison of Health-Related-Quality-of-Life among Children with Epilepsy and a Healthy Control Group in Tehran SN - 1304-2580 SN - 1875-9041 PY - 2020 JF - Journal of Pediatric Neurology LA - EN VL - 19 IS - 03 SP - 166 EP - 172 DA - 2020/02/10 KW - epilepsy KW - quality of life KW - seizure AB - The objective of this study was to determine the quality-of-life (QoL) among children with epilepsy in comparison with a healthy control group. Participants included mothers of 206 children with epilepsy and of 211 healthy controls. The QoL was measured via cross-cultural adaptation of the Quality-of-Life in Children with Epilepsy Questionnaire, which was also modified for the control group. The mean (standard deviation) overall QoL score of children with epilepsy was lower than that of the healthy control group at: 74.3 (8.2) versus 87.9 (6.6), pā€‰<ā€‰0.001. In addition, all seven dimensions of QoL were lower among children with epilepsy compared with that of the healthy control group. The health-related QoL of children with epilepsy was lower than that of the healthy control group. Children experiencing seizures more frequently, experiencing side effects from antiepileptic drugs, having a history of hospitalization, and having poor school performance displayed lower scores in QoL, which may highlight the impact of the severity of the disease and proper management of seizures on the quality-of-life in children with epilepsy. PB - Georg Thieme Verlag KG DO - 10.1055/s-0040-1701637 UR - http://www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/s-0040-1701637 ER -