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

O objetivo desta pesquisa foi avaliar, prospectivamente, a influência das síndromes e crises epilépticas sobre o trabalho com base em uma amostra de 412 pacientes do ambulatório do Hospital de Base de São José do Rio Preto. Observou-se que, as síndromes epilépticas influenciaram significantemente (p=0,001) a capacidade laborativa dos pacientes, sendo que os pacientes com síndromes idiopáticas foram os menos comprometidos, enquanto que os sintomáticos os mais prejudicadas. Os tipos de crises, também, influenciaram a capacidade laborativa dos pacientes (p=0,016), na seguinte forma: as crises generalizadas não convulsivas não interferiram; as parciais simples e as não classificadas prejudicaram moderadamente; por outro lado, as parciais com evolução para complexa e para generalização tônico-clônica foram as que mais tiraram o paciente do trabalho. A severidade das crises também foi analisada.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, São José 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