Treatment Provided in Children and Adolescents with Functional Seizures—A Danish Nationwide Cohort

Background: Functional seizures (FS) are episodes of paroxysmal involuntary movements and altered consciousness without the typical changes in electroencephalography as with epilepsy. A multidisciplinary approach is golden standard treatment FS. This study examined cross-sectoral collaboration modalities provided to children adolescents after a diagnosis Method: Danish nationwide cohort, consisting 334 adolescents, aged 5–17 years, validated FS during period 2004–2014 was studied. Medical record data were collected from diagnosing hospital departments. Management time up three months explored. Results: The most used psychoeducation (n = 289, 86.5%) follow-up outpatient care 192, 70.6%). initiated for third cases 98, 29.3%). commonly combination consisted psychoeducation, psychotherapy; however, only few patients received this specific 14, 4.2%). Conclusions: applied individualized varying use modalities. Initiatives curate clinical guidelines implement should be further explored improve young group patients.