Fifty-year follow-up of childhood epilepsy - Social, psychometric, and occupational outcome.

Objective: The objective of this study was to explore and describe the experience of a childhood diagnosis of epilepsy and its consequences for the experiences of daily life over a span of 50 years.

Methods: A descriptive mixed method design was chosen. Data were collected through a survey returned by 86 persons (59% response rate) who had received diagnoses of epilepsy as children.

Fifty years' follow-up of childhood epilepsy: Medical outcome, morbidity, and medication.

Objective: To describe the long-term prognosis of childhood epilepsy, with special emphasis on seizure remission, relapse, medication, associated neurologic impairment, mortality rate, and cause of death.

Methods: A prospective longitudinal study on a population-based total cohort of 195 children with epileptic seizures in 1962-1964. Data were collected from medical records and a questionnaire.