When it comes to quality of life, it’s not seizure severity or medication status that has the biggest effect on children with epilepsy but rather psychosocial factors, new research suggests.
The results could have important implications for managing these young patients, researchers say.
“For children and youth with epilepsy, psychosocial factors such as parental and peer support as well as a child mental health should really be an area to focus on in daily clinical assessment,” said study author Gabriel Ronen, MD, professor, pediatrics, McMaster University, and pediatric neurologist, McMaster Children’s Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
