[Cohesion and family adaptability in women with epilepsy: cross-sectional study].

Objective: To test the hypothesis that women with epilepsy come from families with poor cohesion and adaptability to the disease, compared with healthy women.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: A retrospective study was done on 263 women from a neurology outpatient department and a family medicine unit from the Mexican Social Security Institute in Sonora (Mexico) between 2010 and 2011.