Fatores que influenciam a qualidade de vida de pessoas com epilepsia

• Autor(a) principal: Borges, Karina Kelly
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Borges, Moacir alves, Santos, Flavia Heloisa dos [UNESP], Santos, Adriana Barbosa [UNESP], Souza, Elisabete Abib Pedroso de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://www.rbtc.org.br/detalhe_artigo.asp?id=102; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/122459
• topic: qualidade de vida; epilepsia; Questionário - QQV65; Quality of life; Epilepsy; QQV-65 questionnaire

Epilepsy is a chronic disorder that impairs life quality (LQ) and interferes in emotional, personal, social and family relationship aspects. This study evaluated 165 people with epilepsy diagnosis, ranging from 18 to 75 years old (M=41,28; SD= 13,26), by means of the QQV-65 (Life Quality Questionnaire with 65 questions) and investigated the association between the questionnaire scores and the disease features, comparing patients who showed refrectory seizures with patients with partially controled seizures. There was no difference in relation to the two groups regarding the LQ factor. The QQV-65 emotional factor was the most affected in both groups, since the estimated mean z-escore was 51,0±14,4 for Group I and 49,9±14,7 for Group II. Regarding the type of crisis, the analysis of variance (ANOVA) revealed that Health was the only factor in QQV-65 that showed a statistically significant difference between the z-scores (P = 0.024). However, for the frequency of epileptic seizures, except Health (P = 0.185), other factors QQV-65 proved to be related in a statistically significant way (P> 0.05). The research demonstrated that seizure control perception is quite important in the evaluation of life quality in all its aspects (health, body, society, emotion, locus of control, self-concept and cognition).