Scholar Performance and Praxis Assessment in Children With Rolandic Epilepsy

Sponsor

University of Campinas, Brazil (Other)

Overall Status

Unknown status

CT.gov ID

NCT01046760

Collaborator

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (Other)

Enrollment

Location

Duration (Months)

1.2

Patients Per Site Per Month

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

Rolandic Epilepsy is the most common form of childhood epilepsy. It is classified as idiopathic, age-related epilepsy syndrome with benign evolution. The absence of neuropsychological impairment is part of the criteria of benignity of this epilepsy syndrome. However recently have been suggested several deficits related to attention and language. The purpose of this study was assess school performance and to investigate problems of praxis in patients with rolandic epilepsy as compared to a control group composed of normal children with age, gender and educational level equivalents.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Rolandic Epilepsy Apraxia	Behavioral: Language Assessment

Detailed Description

Method: Nineteen patients aged between 7 and 12 years underwent clinical neurological evaluation, psychological assessment, through Weschsler Scales of Intelligence and language evaluation, to assess the academic performance and research of the presence or absence of praxis difficulties.

Study Design

Study Type:

Observational

Anticipated Enrollment :

20 participants

Observational Model:

Cohort

Time Perspective:

Retrospective

Official Title:

Scholar Performance and Praxis Assessment in Children With Rolandic Epilepsy

Study Start Date :

Sep 1, 2009

Anticipated Primary Completion Date :

Feb 1, 2011

Anticipated Study Completion Date :

Feb 1, 2011

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Rolandic Epilepsy Patients older than seven years old with clinical and electroencephalographic diagnosis of Rolandic Epilepsy	Behavioral: Language Assessment Patients underwent an assessment performed with School Performance Test, Syntactic Awareness Test and a Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test. Other Names: Children with epilepsy, language impairment and dyslexia

Arm

Intervention/Treatment

Rolandic Epilepsy

Patients older than seven years old with clinical and electroencephalographic diagnosis of Rolandic Epilepsy

Behavioral: Language Assessment

Patients underwent an assessment performed with School Performance Test, Syntactic Awareness Test and a Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test.

Other Names:

Children with epilepsy, language impairment and dyslexia

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

Our data will indicate the group performance in tests of writing, arithmetic and reading. [one year]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Another important aspect was the absence of orofacial apraxia in children with epilepsy. [one year]

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:

7 Years to 12 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study:

All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

Yes

Inclusion Criteria:

Diagnosis of rolandic epilepsy using clinical, EEG and neuroimaging findings
Patients had neurological, ophthalmic and auditory unchanged, and intelligence quotient (IQ) equal to or above 80.
All parents signed the consent form, authorizing the participation of their children (as) in the search.

Exclusion Criteria:

With oral language and writing of the following tables, whereas the DSM-IV: pervasive developmental disorders, cerebral palsy child acquired aphasia, hearing impairment (including mild conductive hearing loss), progressive disease
What not signed the consent form.