Epileptic syndromes and seizures and their relationship with work: a prospective ambulatory study in 412 epileptic patients

This study aims to evaluate, prospectively, the epileptic syndromes and seizures types upon work based on a sample of 412 out-patients from Hospital de Base, Sao Jose do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil. It was observed that the epileptic syndromes were significant in relation to the patients' labor skills (p=0.001); the idiopathic syndromes showed less prejudiced, while the symptomatic was more. The seizures types also had some influence in relation to the patients' labor skills (p=0.016); the generalized non-convulsive seizures had no involvement; the simple partial and the non-classified had moderately involvement; and the simple partial seizures evolving to complex and tonic-clonic generalized were the seizures which mostly have taken the patients away from work. The seizure severity was also analyzed.