Clinical trial NCT01046760: Scholar Performance and Praxis Assessment in Children With Rolandic Epilepsy
Official title: Scholar Performance and Praxis Assessment in Children With Rolandic Epilepsy
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Rolandic Epilepsy
Apraxia
Keywords: epilepsy
language
childhood
praxis
Lead sponsor: University of Campinas, Brazil
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
First posted: 2010-01-12
Enrollment: 20
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 7
Maximum age (years): 12
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: RETROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Amongst patients with rolandic epilepsy assisted at the Clinic of Neurological-Psychological-Language in childhood of Hospital de Clínicas of Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp).

Brief summary: Rolandic Epilepsy is the most common form of childhood epilepsy. It is classified as idiopathic, age-related epilepsy syndrome with benign evolution. The absence of neuropsychological impairment is part of the criteria of benignity of this epilepsy syndrome. However recently have been suggested several deficits related to attention and language. The purpose of this study was assess school performance and to investigate problems of praxis in patients with rolandic epilepsy as compared to a control group composed of normal children with age, gender and educational level equivalents.

Detailed description: Method: Nineteen patients aged between 7 and 12 years underwent clinical neurological evaluation, psychological assessment, through Weschsler Scales of Intelligence and language evaluation, to assess the academic performance and research of the presence or absence of praxis difficulties.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Diagnosis of rolandic epilepsy using clinical, EEG and neuroimaging findings
* Patients had neurological, ophthalmic and auditory unchanged, and intelligence quotient (IQ) equal to or above 80.
* All parents signed the consent form, authorizing the participation of their children (as) in the search.

Exclusion Criteria:

* With oral language and writing of the following tables, whereas the DSM-IV: pervasive developmental disorders, cerebral palsy child acquired aphasia, hearing impairment (including mild conductive hearing loss), progressive disease
* What not signed the consent form.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Our data will indicate the group performance in tests of writing, arithmetic and reading.
timeFrame: one year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Another important aspect was the absence of orofacial apraxia in children with epilepsy.
timeFrame: one year
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Campinas
country: Brazil
facility: Clinical Hospital
state: São Paulo
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Campinas, Brazil
name: Marilisa Guerreiro, doctor
role: STUDY_CHAIR
References:
citation: Oliveira EP, Neri ML, Medeiros LL, Guimaraes CA, Guerreiro MM. School performance and praxis assessment in children with Rolandic Epilepsy. Pro Fono. 2010 Jul-Sep;22(3):209-14. doi: 10.1590/s0104-56872010000300009. English, Portuguese.