A Teachers' Questionnaire Description of Epileptic Children
- 1 September 1976
- Vol. 17 (3) , 275-281
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1528-1157.1976.tb03406.x
Abstract
A teachers'' questionnaire was completed for 120 children from normal schools, half of whom suffered from epilepsy. The rate of perceived disturbance among the 30 epileptic children who, for a variety of reasons, were admitted to a neuropsychiatric hospital was as high as that of a matched group of psychiatric inpatients. The other epileptic children exhibited significantly more signs of disturbance than their normal school controls with whom they were matched for behavior. The 2 epileptic groups shared certain behavioral characteristics. These did not fit into typical neurotic or antisocial patterns and may relate to cerebral dysfunction.Keywords
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