Academic performance of pediatric epileptic patients at King Abdulaziz University Hospital
Osama Y. Muthaffar, Hadeel Bakheet, Abdulaziz AlKhoshi, Maha Alsaiari, Saher Algarni, Abdulaziz Shaheen, Abdullah Zuhairy · 2024
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Osama Y Muthaffar and co-authors surveyed the school life of children with epilepsy at a university hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in a study published in 2024. Epilepsy is common in children there, and seizures, medicines, and absences can all drag down learning. The team gathered answers from families of two hundred seven patients treated between 2016 and 2022.
Over half of the children had trouble with focus and memory, and that burden tied closely to age at diagnosis. About a third had other conditions as well, which linked to more missed school. Most children missed fewer than ten days a year, and many absences had nothing to do with seizures. Bullying tied to seizures also appeared and linked to absence. The authors call for better support inside schools.
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| CREATOR | Osama Y. Muthaffar, Hadeel Bakheet, Abdulaziz AlKhoshi, Maha Alsaiari, Saher Algarni, Abdulaziz Shaheen, Abdullah Zuhairy |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 22 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |