ArticleEpilepsy & behavior reports2025
Heterogeneous knowledge of childhood seizures and epilepsy care in Canadian healthcare Providers: Identifying the gaps.
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- Severity, uncertainty, social support and coping style of parents who have children with epilepsy: a structural equation model.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Epilepsy is the most common chronic neurological condition in children. Many barriers exist in early recognition which cause delay in care and impact quality of life. Some of these children require advanced treatments which are underutilized due to lack of education, awareness and referrals. Overall, childhood epilepsy is underdiagnosed and poorly understood by non-expert providers. We investigated awareness and knowledge about epilepsy from primary care providers via the quality of their referrals. We prospectively collected and examined all epilepsy related referrals to the Paediatric Neurology Division at Children's Hospital in London, Ontario, Canada during a six-month period. We developed a modified "epilepsy focused" scoring tool to evaluate the referrals and scored them as basic or advanced. During the study time frame 175 (82 %) referrals met the inclusion criteria. Out of these, 152 (87 %) were identified as basic and 23 (13 %) were advanced (p < 0.001). Amongst the referrals that scored basic vs advanced: Family Doctors n = 49 with 40 basic (81 %) vs 9 advanced (18.3 %), Paediatric ER physicians n = 37, all 37 were basic (100 %) and Paediatricians n = 41 with 36 (87 %) basic and 5 (12 %) advanced. Our results showed significant lack of critical information in the content of epilepsy referrals coming from non-epileptologist providers, largely from the cohort of paediatric ED doctors. This reveals that knowledge and awareness of epilepsy in children remains scarce. Identifying these barriers can provide insights to develop strategies to facilitate accurate identification and rapid triage for children presenting with new onset epilepsy.
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