PMID: 18711259Aug 20, 2008Paper

Healthcare-seeking behavior after seizures in children

Indian Journal of Medical Sciences
Sandeep B BavdekarSandhya Jadhav

Abstract

Hardly any Indian data is available regarding practices employed by parents for preventing injuries and aspiration and controlling convulsions in children. To describe the health care-seeking behavior and practices employed by parents when a child has convulsions. Prospective questionnaire-based study in a tertiary care hospital setting. Parents of children (age: 1 month -12 years) admitted with history of convulsions were enrolled and information regarding demographic characteristics, time lag, preferred health care provider and measures taken in a convulsing child was elicited using a pretested questionnaire. Demographic parameters and measures employed described as percentages. One hundred and forty parents were interviewed. Seventy-six children had first episode. Forty-nine of 64 children with subsequent seizures had contact with a health care provider during the previous seizure episode. The median duration of seizures was 10 minutes (Mean: 54.15+/-366.39 min); but children were brought to the hospital after a median of 2 hours (Mean: 5.22+/-10.37 h). Measures such as smelling onions, oral administration of cold water, reading religious texts and insertion of mouth gag were employed. Although 45 with previous seizure-relat...Continue Reading

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