[Children with brain seizures: impact on their families. A clinical and social study].

Introduction and Material: Over a two-year period, a total of 23 children (13 males and 11 females) entered in the Unit of Infantile Neurology of our hospital affections of diverse types of cerebral seizures, were subjected to follow-up study prospective from the point of view medical and social, analyzing the characteristic and situation of their family environment.
Results and Conclusions: Between the outputs, they have met important differences between the attitude in front of the problem of the several family groups, according to it's valued for the doctor or for the Unit of Social Work. At the beginning he is not frequent the acceptance of the illness, contrarily to the one which the denial happens to. Have been detected a tall index of anxiety-anguish between the relatives setting in connection with the correct acceptance diagnostic. They have not met differences between the attitude in front of the problem and the economical status associate referred to the profession, the instruction or the housing of the parents. The severity of the illness has not been the only factor in the integration psychosocial of the children with seizures, existing other factors of environmental character that rebound same on the medium. The disorders of the psychotic sphere was those that were affected with an old intensity.