ArticleNutrients2023
The Ketogenic Diet in Children with Epilepsy: A Focus on Parental Stress and Family Compliance.
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- Can Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Plan Therapeutic Ketogenic Diets for Children With Epilepsy?Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2026Article
- Investigation of the implementation and utilization of ketogenic diet therapy in China : For the Commission on Standardized Development of Epilepsy Centers and Commission on Ketogenic Diet, China Association Against Epilepsy.Acta epileptologica · 2026Article
- The Ketogenic Diet and Potential Micronutrient Risks in Drug-Resistant Epilepsy Management: A Literature Review.Nutrients · 2026Review
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- Characterizing the fecal microbiome in patients on the ketogenic diet for drug resistant epilepsy.Heliyon · 2025Article
- Psychometric properties of the Parenting Stress Index-Short Form in a Peruvian sample.Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS · 2024Article
- Promoting medication compliance in epileptic children: a cross sectional survey.BMC pediatrics · 2024Article
- The Assessment of the Efficacy, Safety, and Challenges of Ketogenic Diet Therapy in Children with Epilepsy: The First Experience of a Single Center.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Article
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- Bringing nutritional ketosis to the table as an option for healing the pediatric brain.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Ketogenic diets therapy in the management of epileptic spasms syndrome.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Review
- Revolutionizing Neurological Disorder Treatment: Integrating Innovations in Pharmaceutical Interventions and Advanced Therapeutic Technologies.Current pharmaceutical design · 2024Review
- Validation of an Italian Questionnaire of Adherence to the Ketogenic Dietary Therapies: iKetoCheck.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- Factor Analysis of the Brazilian Questionnaire on Adherence to Ketogenic Dietary Therapy: Keto-Check.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Advances toward precision therapeutics for developmental and epileptic encephalopathies.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
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Abstract
(1) Background: The aim of our study was to evaluate parental stress after 6 and 12 months of a ketogenic diet, considering demographic and clinical variables (epilepsy type, epilepsy duration, seizure number, antiseizure medications, comorbidities, efficacy, and adverse events). (2) Methods: We consecutively enrolled 36 children aged between 3 and 10 years who had been diagnosed with various types of drug-resistant epilepsy and who were in therapy with a ketogenic diet for better seizure control. A standardized neuropsychological questionnaire (Parenting Stress Index-PSI) was administered to the parents evaluating parental stress at baseline (T0), after 6 (T1) months, and after 12 months (T2). (3) Results: After 6 and 12 months of dietary treatment, Parental Distress and Total Stress mean scores were statistically significantly increased. Post hoc analysis showed no significant changes in the scores between T0 and T1, although there was a significant increase between T1 and T2. We did not find statistically significant relationships between parental stress and the other variables considered. (4) Conclusions: The ketogenic diet can be challenging for parents and can affect the perception of parental stress, especially in the long term. Parents may feel inadequate in their role; therefore, they should be helped and encouraged through additional supports in order to maximize the adherence to diet therapy.
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