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Association of Child Neurology-Indian Epilepsy Society Consensus Document on Parental Counseling of Children with Epilepsy

Authors: Kavita Srivastava, Rachna Sehgal, Ramesh Konanki, Ridhimaa Jain, Suvasini Sharma, Rekha Mittal, Anaita Hedge, Anju Aggarwal, Arijit Chattopadhyay, Bijoy Patra, Jaya Shankar Kaushik, Lokesh Lingappa, Naveen Sankhyan, Puja Kapoor, Pratibha Singhi, Satinder Aneja, Sheffali Gulati, Sujata Kanhere, Surekha Rajadhyakshya, Veena Kalra, Vineet Bhushan Gupta, Vrajesh Udani, Yeeshu Sudan, Man Mohan Mehendiratta, Manjari Tripathi, GT Subhash, Bhavneet Bharti, Srinivas Rao, Munawwar Naseem, Snehashish Mukherjee, Priya Jain, Mehreen Khosla, Kavita Shanbagh, Deepa Jain, Sumeet Mansingh, Dhaneshwar Yadav, Chetan Singh, Sunita Raina, Sapna Srivastava, Leena Ahuja, Rashmi Kumar, K P Vinayan, Rakesh Jain, Satish Jain, Devendra Mishra, Association of Child Neurology (AOCN)-Indian Epilepsy Society (IES) SOLACE Expert Group

Published in: Indian Journal of Pediatrics | Issue 7/2019

Abstract

When a child is diagnosed with epilepsy, counseling regarding the same is done by the treating doctor. Most parents are frightened and have poor knowledge about epilepsy. Therapeutic advice including drug dosage, administration and side effects takes up the major part of physician’s time, thereby neglecting important issues like home seizure management, follow up and others. These lacunae in knowledge require systematic patient and family education. To address these issues, an expert group meeting of pediatric neurologists and epileptologists in India along with social workers/epilepsy educators, legal experts, parents, and teachers was held. The various aspects regarding parental counseling in children with epilepsy were discussed and a consensus document was formulated. Here authors present the group consensus statement on counseling parents and caregivers of children with epilepsy. This document is intended to help physicians and pediatricians counsel the families when a child is diagnosed with epilepsy.

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Title: Association of Child Neurology-Indian Epilepsy Society Consensus Document on Parental Counseling of Children with Epilepsy
Authors: Kavita Srivastava
Rachna Sehgal
Ramesh Konanki
Ridhimaa Jain
Suvasini Sharma
Rekha Mittal
Anaita Hedge
Anju Aggarwal
Arijit Chattopadhyay
Bijoy Patra
Jaya Shankar Kaushik
Lokesh Lingappa
Naveen Sankhyan
Puja Kapoor
Pratibha Singhi
Satinder Aneja
Sheffali Gulati
Sujata Kanhere
Surekha Rajadhyakshya
Veena Kalra
Vineet Bhushan Gupta
Vrajesh Udani
Yeeshu Sudan
Man Mohan Mehendiratta
Manjari Tripathi
GT Subhash
Bhavneet Bharti
Srinivas Rao
Munawwar Naseem
Snehashish Mukherjee
Priya Jain
Mehreen Khosla
Kavita Shanbagh
Deepa Jain
Sumeet Mansingh
Dhaneshwar Yadav
Chetan Singh
Sunita Raina
Sapna Srivastava
Leena Ahuja
Rashmi Kumar
K P Vinayan
Rakesh Jain
Satish Jain
Devendra Mishra
Association of Child Neurology (AOCN)-Indian Epilepsy Society (IES) SOLACE Expert Group
Publication date: 01-07-2019
Publisher: Springer India
Keyword: Epilepsy
Published in: Indian Journal of Pediatrics / Issue 7/2019
Print ISSN: 0019-5456
Electronic ISSN: 0973-7693
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-019-02946-z

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