Aggressive behaviour at a residential epilepsy centre
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چکیده
There is an extensive literature on epilepsy and violence, but no study has addressed aggression (i.e. apparently intentional violence) in a residential-care population. We performed a retrospective study at the Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy (a residential-care facility in rural Buckinghamshire) in order to determine the frequency and character of episodes of aggression. This allowed us to identify a group of aggressive subjects who were compared with age- and sex-matched control subjects drawn from the remaining residents. We found the prevalence of aggression to be 27.2% in 1 year amongst long-term residents. The overall frequency was estimated at between 121 and 207 incidents per 100 persons per year. A few incidents (0.7%) were related to an acute psychosis but they were more likely to result in significant injury. Offenders were younger than non-aggressive residents. Gender, age of onset of epilepsy, history of psychosis, mobility, abnormality on MRI scan, learning disability and seizure frequency were not associated with aggressive conduct.
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London, UK: The Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy
ration with philanthropic charities. There have been close links between the charity and the hospital ever since. In 1894, the society purchased a farm in Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire, establishing the Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy. The name of the society was changed to the National Society for Epilepsy (NSE) in 1907. The NSE has provided residential care and public education from that t...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Seizure
دوره 9 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2000