Cognition, academic achievement, and epilepsy in school-age children: a case-control study in a developing country
| Autor: | N. Morrison-Levy, J. Tapper, Susan P. Walker, M. Tulloch-Reid, S. Chang, R. Melbourne Chambers |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Jamaica Intelligence Academic achievement Neuropsychological Tests Developmental psychology NEPSY Behavioral Neuroscience Epilepsy Raven's Progressive Matrices Cognition Memory medicine Humans Attention Child Socioeconomic status Developing Countries Regression analysis medicine.disease Achievement Crowding Neurology Case-Control Studies Educational Status Female Neurology (clinical) Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Epilepsybehavior : EB. 33 |
| ISSN: | 1525-5069 |
| Popis: | We conducted a case-control study of 33 Jamaican children 7 to 12years old with uncomplicated epilepsy and 33 of their classroom peers matched for age and gender to determine whether epilepsy resulted in differences in cognitive ability and school achievement and if socioeconomic status or the environment had a moderating effect on any differences. Intelligence, language, memory, attention, executive function, and mathematics ability were assessed using selected tests from NEPSY, WISCR, TeaCh, WRAT3 - expanded, and Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices. The child's environment at home was measured using the Middle Childhood HOME inventory. Socioeconomic status was determined from a combination of household, crowding, possessions, and sanitation. We compared the characteristics of the cases and controls and used random effects regression models (using the matched pair as the cluster) to examine the relationship between cognition and epilepsy. We found that there was no significant difference in IQ, but children with epilepsy had lower scores on tests of memory (p |
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