Anxiety and depression in children with epilepsy and their mothers
Anxiety and depression in children with epilepsy and their mothers
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DOI：
10.1016/j.yebeh.2004.08.016
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发表时间：
2004-12-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Yalcinkaya, C
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作者：
Baki, O;Erdogan, A;Yalcinkaya, C
Objective.患有癫痫的儿童有很高的抑郁和焦虑率。大多数研究集中在癫痫儿童，但癫痫对家庭成员的情绪影响是临床关注的问题。在这项横断面研究中，我们的目的是研究儿童和青少年癫痫与这些患者及其母亲的焦虑和抑郁之间的关系。我们在横断面分析中研究了35名癫痫发作的儿童和青少年（年龄范围，7-19岁），35名性别匹配的健康对照（年龄范围，8-17岁），他们没有任何慢性疾病，以及这些人的母亲（n = 70）。我们对儿童进行了Kovac儿童抑郁量表（CDI）和儿童状态-特质焦虑量表（STAIc）。我们对这些孩子的母亲进行了贝克抑郁量表（BDI）和状态-特质焦虑量表（STAI）。Pearson相关分析变量间的相关性，Student t检验比较测验得分间的均值。癫痫患者的CDI评分（平均值± SD，12.48 ± 6.35）高于对照组（9.31 ± 5.11）（P < 0.05），而STAIc评分在病例组（34.03 ± 8.29）和对照组（35.20 ± 6.23）之间没有差异（P < 0.05）。癫痫患儿母亲的BDI和STAI评分与非癫痫患儿母亲相比，抑郁和焦虑症状无显著性差异（P > 0.05）。母亲的得分与患者或对照组的得分之间没有相关性。这些结果支持了以前的研究结果，即癫痫儿童和青少年比健康儿童的一般人群有更高的抑郁症状，但不是焦虑症状，这与他们母亲的症状无关。(C)2004年爱思唯尔公司All rights reserved.
Objective. Children with epilepsy have high rates of depression and anxiety. The majority of studies concentrate on the children with epilepsy, but the emotional impact of epilepsy on family members is of clinical concern. In this cross-sectional study we aimed to examine the association between epilepsy in childhood and adolescence, and anxiety and depression in these patients and their mothers.Methods. We studied 35 children and adolescents with seizures (age range, 7-19 years), 35 gender-matched healthy controls (age range, 8-17) who did not have any chronic medical illness, and mothers of these individuals (n = 70) in a cross-sectional analysis. We administered the Kovac Child Depression Inventory (CDI) and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children (STAIc) to the children. We administered the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) to the mothers of these children. Pearson correlations were used to analyze dependence between variables, and Student's t test was used to compare mean values between test scores.Results. Patients with epilepsy had higher CDI scores (mean +/- SD, 12.48 +/- 6.35) than controls (9.31 +/- 5.11) (P < 0.05), whereas the STAIc scores did not differ between cases (34.03 +/- 8.29) and controls (35.20 +/- 6.23) (P < 0.05). Mothers of children with epilepsy did not have more depression or anxiety symptoms than mothers of children without epilepsy as measured by BDI and STAI scores (P > 0.05). There was no correlation between mothers' scores and patients' or controls' scores.Conclusions. These results support findings from previous studies that children and adolescents with epilepsy have a higher frequency of depressive but not anxiety symptoms than the general population of healthy children and that this is independent of their mothers' symptoms. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.