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2. Poster Session 2, Monday 6 September

Author

Marianthi Arnaoutoglou, Vasiliki Kosta, R. Lambousis, Stavros Balogiannis, Anna Karlovasitou-Koniari, G. Katsiki, G.P. Spanos, and Athanasios Arnaoutoglou

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Neurology, media_common.quotation_subject, Multiple sclerosis, medicine, Personality, Abstracts of the 8th Congress of the EFNS, Paris, 2004, Neurology (clinical), Psychology, medicine.disease, media_common, Clinical psychology
Published
2004

3. REM behavior disorder (RBD): demographic, clinical and laboratory findings in 18 cases

Author

Stavros Boufidis, Stavros J. Baloyannis, Eftimia Vlahoyanni, Anna Karlovasitou, Aggeliki Balla, and Kostas Sitzoglou

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, medicine.diagnostic_test, lcsh:RC435-571, Complete blood count, Mean age, Neurological examination, Psychiatry and Mental health, Rem behavior disorder, Clinical history, lcsh:Psychiatry, medicine, Brain mri, Psychology, Psychiatry, Clinical evaluation, Geriatric psychiatry
Abstract

A group of subjects in whom the clinical history fulfilledthe diagnostic criteria for REM behavior disorder (RBD) ofthe criteria of American Sleep Disorders Association andSleep Research Society (1997)described here were identi-fied in our sleep unit between March 2000, and June2007.18 patients, (12) men and (6) women with a mean age of70.5 ± 11 years. They all had a history of dream-enactingbehaviors with a mean duration of 5.5 ± 9.5years. Behav-iors included talking (100%), shouting (78%), punching(74%), gesturing (63%) and kicking (65.3%). 15 subjectsfell out of bed and 11 suffered lacerations in the face.The frequency of episodes is variable, occurring once every2 weeks to 4 times nightly for consecutive nights, andoften increases over time.Patients were interviewed regarding their sleep habits andunderwent full PSG. The clinical evaluation of the patientsconsisted of a neurological examination, an interviewwith him/her,and an interview with his wife/husband.They also underwent a full laboratory and biochemicalevaluation like a complete blood count,test of thyreoidfunction e.t.c. As well as an E.E.G, a brain MRI and psy-chometrics tests (B.D.I, M.P.P.I).

Published
2008

4. The Greek version of the Quality of Life in Epilepsy Inventory (QOLIE-31).

Author

Piperidou, Haritomeni, Haritomeni, Piperidou, Terzoudi, Aikaterini, Aikaterini, Terzoudi, Vorvolakos, Theofanis, Theofanis, Vorvolakos, Davis, Elizabeth, Elizabeth, Davis, Heliopoulos, Ioannis, Ioannis, Heliopoulos, Vadikolias, Konstantinos, Konstantinos, Vadikolias, Giassakis, Georgios, Georgios, Giassakis, Aggelopoulos, Petros, Petros, Aggelopoulos, Georgios, Georgiadis, Karlovasitou, Anna, and Anna, Karlovasitou

Abstract

This study is presenting the translation and cultural adaptation into Greek of the Quality of Life in Epilepsy Inventory (QOLIE-31). We adapted the QOLIE-31 to Greek through a procedure of translation-back-translation. Sixty-three patients were interviewed and completed the QOLIE-31 and the GHQ questionnaires. We re-examined a subset of them after a period of 2-5 weeks to evaluate the test-retest reliability of the questionnaire. We assessed the convergent validity by comparison of the QOLIE-31 and the GHQ and QOLIE-31 subscales and external measures. Discriminative validity was evaluated using the method of known-groups comparisons. The internal consistency was high for the QOLIE-31 and its' subscales (Cronbach's alpha 0.92 and 0.59-0.83 respectively). Test-retest reliability was acceptable (intra-class correlation coefficient 0.49-0.89 and Pearson's coefficient 0.53-0.92) for the group of patients who were re-examined. Comparison of the QOLIE-31 and GHQ scores showed agreement between the two questionnaires (Pearson's coefficient -0.61). We demonstrated the discriminative validity by the difference in the QOLIE-31 scores between patients with different seizure frequencies and different employment status. We concluded that the Greek version of the QOLIE-31 has psychometric properties equivalent to those of the original American-English version and is a valid and reliable instrument. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2006

5. Influence of sleep disturbance on quality of life of patients with epilepsy

Author

Charitomeni Piperidou, Anna Karlovasitou, Theodoros C. Constantinidis, Nikolaos Triantafyllou, Konstantinos Vadikolias, Stavros Balogiannis, Ioannis Heliopoulos, Dimitrios Vassilopoulos, and Aikaterini Terzoudi

Subjects
Adult, Male, Sleep Wake Disorders, Quality of life, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Insomnia, Adolescent, Clinical Neurology, Excessive daytime sleepiness, Sleep debt, Surveys and Questionnaires, medicine, Humans, Athens insomnia scale, Aged, Sleep disorder, Epilepsy, business.industry, Epworth Sleepiness Scale, Sleep apnea, General Medicine, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Obstructive sleep apnea, nervous system diseases, Neurology, Physical therapy, Regression Analysis, Female, Neurology (clinical), medicine.symptom, business
Abstract

SummaryThe frequency of sleep disturbances in patients with epilepsy and their impact on quality of life (QoL) have been documented in a few reports, and the results are conflicting. We identified 124 consecutive epilepsy out-patients who visited the epilepsy out-patient clinics at the University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, the AHEPA Hospital in Thessaloniki and the Aeginitio Hospital in Athens. We measured excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) with the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS), obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) with the Sleep Apnea scale of the Sleep Disorders Questionnaire (SA-SDQ), and insomnia with the Athens Insomnia Scale (AIS). We evaluated quality of life by the Quality of Life in Epilepsy Inventory (QOLIE-31). EDS was found in 16.9% (21/124) of epileptic patients, OSA in 28.2% (35/124), and insomnia in 24.6% (30/122). In multivariate analysis, we found that insomnia was an independent negative factor for Total score (p

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