Parenting stress does not normalize after child's epilepsy surgery

Braams, Olga; Meekes, Joost; Braun, Kees P.J.; Schappin, Renske; Rijen, Peter C. van; Hendriks, Marc; Jennekens‐Schinkel, A.; Nieuwenhuizen, Onno van

doi:10.1016/j.yebeh.2014.10.034

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“…This implies that parent's parenting stress burden was particularly high, consistent with previous studies, 16 and that he or she required external help. Before VNS implantation, our results showed that the highest scores for the top two parent domain subscales were spouse and role restriction; a similar finding to the study by Braams et al 18 The highest scores for the top three child domain subscales (acceptability, demandingness and distractibility/hyperactivity) were also the same. This confirms that the results before VNS implantation of relative higher parenting stress subscales in this study were similar to those found in previous study.…”

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“…This confirms that the results before VNS implantation of relative higher parenting stress subscales in this study were similar to those found in previous study. 18 Regarding role restriction, a majority of parents consider seizures to be unpredictable, therefore parents may stay with their children or not far away from them. 29 Regarding the spouse subscale, children with chronic illness put a large amount of pressure on their parents' marital relationships.…”

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“…Children with refractory epilepsy have been associated with markedly increased maternal parenting stress, and this increase in pressure is primarily because of factors related to the children. 17 Braams et al 18 reported that although parenting stress decreases after a child's epilepsy surgery, the score does not normalize in the first two years after surgery.…”

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“…27 Relative to other surgical methods, VNS causes less damage to brain tissues. While Braams et al investigated parenting stress changes associated with surgery, 18 changes in parenting stress before and after VNS has not yet been investigated.…”

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Parenting stress in parents of children with refractory epilepsy before and after vagus nerve stimulation implantation

Chiu

Kuo

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Pediatrics & Neonatology

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Parenting stress in parents of children with refractory epilepsy before and after vagus nerve stimulation implantation

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Kuo

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Pediatrics & Neonatology

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“…Finally, the effects of environmental variables on postsurgical cognitive development are debated and have to be studied further. Parental stress, for example, is known to be increased in families having a child with epilepsy 59,60 and to not normalize after epilepsy surgery 60 but its effect on cognition after childhood epilepsy has not yet been established.…”

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Reflection on Assessing the Development of Children after Epilepsy Surgery

Jennekens‐Schinkel

Schooneveld

2018

J Pediatr Epilepsy

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Children of schoolage having similar medical and neuropsychological conditions but entirely different life courses after left-sided hemispherectomy led us to reflect on sources of differences in development after epilepsy surgery. Two recent reviews exposed the impact of epilepsy-related variables on the cognitive outcomes and concluded that overall the surgical procedures had not caused additional harm. Our aim was to see whether facilitating or impeding influences—other than epilepsy and epilepsy surgery—were addressed in the literature regarding cognitive outcome. Further review of the literature did not yield information on influences of variables that are known to affect normal development; no study addressed influences of motor and/or sensory impairments. Few studies discussed interference of deficits in other cognitive domains with the target domains. The influences of gender and of an important environmental aspect, family factors, etc., were underexposed as well. Understanding why one child adjusts to her/his novel life situation and another child with apparently similar abilities and impairments is unable to do so, is essential for adequate counseling. A more biographical approach of cognitive development is proposed to understand the differential life courses of children and adolescents with a history of epilepsy surgery. A perspective of “functioning” rather than cognitive “functions,” conceived of as independent entities, will help bridge the gap between neurocognitive and more biographical approaches to the functioning of children after epilepsy surgery.

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