PMID: 16640844Apr 28, 2006Paper

Validation of a questionnaire for epilepsy diagnosis in primary care services

Revista Panamericana De Salud Pública = Pan American Journal of Public Health
Arturo CarpioIsmael Vásquez

Abstract

To evaluate the usefulness of a questionnaire in primary health care services for establishing the diagnosis of epilepsy in children from 1 to 10 years old and for classifying their epileptic seizures. This cross-sectional observational study was conducted in 2004. There were 204 children in the study (102 diagnosed with epilepsy and 102 without epilepsy). The children were randomly selected at the Regional Center of Epilepsies and the Vincent Corral Moscoso Hospital, which are both in the city of Cuenca, Ecuador. For the study, each child with epilepsy was matched with a child without epilepsy, in two age groups: 1 to 5 years old and 6 to 10 years old. Four students who were in their last academic year in the School of Medicine of Cuenca and who did not know the child's diagnosis utilized the questionnaire with a family member or other guardian of the child. The validity, sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of the questionnaire were calculated, with 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs). The clinical diagnosis carried out by specialists was used as the gold standard. The assessment showed that the questionnaire had good sensitivity (95.10%; 95% CI: 94.58%-95.61%) and good specificity...Continue Reading

Citations

Sep 17, 2020·Journal of Environmental and Public Health·Joseph O Yaria, Adesola Ogunniyi
Jun 12, 2009·Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports·Arturo Carpio, W Allen Hauser
Dec 19, 2020·Journal of Child Neurology·Alcy R TorresLaurie M Douglass

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