Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS 2qR0xzAO. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Only a small fraction of people with epilepsy in developing countries has access to medical facilities. Even with effective treatment, their psychosocial needs are often overlooked in the absence of obvious disability. In rural areas, community-based rehabilitation programmes assist in the integration of people with disabilities into employment and the community. However, the functional impairment associated with epilepsy is not well recognised in intervention programmes in developing countries. We report, for the first time, the social activities of children with epilepsy and their peers in rural India. We employed a cross-sectional design using a new age and sex-specific social activity questionnaire. Population screening in the context of a community-based rehabilitation programme identified 88 children with epilepsy and 250 randomly selected controls A trained interviewer administered the questionnaire to mothers in Bengali. Girls'activities were principally domestic, whilst boys'were mostly outdoors and involved peers, All groups of children with epilepsy had significant social deficits, equally for boys and girls in the age range from to 18 years (p
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