Bad News- Diagnosis: Epilepsy in Childhood

Evaluation with Six-Step Protocol for Delivering Bad News (SPIKES); enables the physician to fulfill the four most important objectives of the interview disclosing bad news: gathering information from the patient, transmitting the medical information, providing support to the patient, and eliciting the patient's collaboration in developing a strategy or treatment plan for the future.

numeric scale ranging from 0 = no distress to 10 = most extreme distress

questionnaire to assess coping strategies; (21 questions asking for stress load assessed by Likert scale; 13 questions asking for stress symptoms assessed by Likert scale)

ASR is a self-report questionnaire for ages 18-59 that assesses behavioral, emotional, and social problems, plus adaptive functioning, personal strengths, and substance use

questionnaire consists of 78 items divided into 13 scales, each representing a certain way of response to a stressful event: underevaluation, guilt denial, diversion, alternative satisfaction, situation control, reaction control, positive self-instruction, the need for social support, active avoidance, escape tendency, perseveration, resignation, and self-accusation. The levels of the positive and negative strategies are calculated; assessed by Likert scale.

measure for evaluating the parenting system and identifying issues that may lead to problems in the child's or parent's behavior. Focuses on three major domains of stress: child characteristics, parent characteristics and situational/demographic life stress (48 Items, 12 Subscales)

standardized, generic assessment instrument that systematically assesses patients' and parents' perceptions of HRQOL in pediatric patients with chronic health conditions,consists of a 15-item core measure of global HRQOL and eight supplemental modules assessing specific symptom or treatment domains

assessing composite score: subscale 1 (stress-vulnerability) summed with subscale 3 (stress symptoms and well-being), lower score meaning a better outcome

parent-report questionnaire on which the child is rated on various behavioral and emotional Problems in preschool subjects aged 2 to 3 or in subjects between the ages of 4 and 18. It assesses internalizing (i.e., anxious, depressive, and overcontrolled) and externalizing (i.e., aggressive, hyperactive, noncompliant, and undercontrolled) behaviors. Several subareas were measured including social withdrawal, somatic complaints, anxiety and depression, destructive behavior, social problems, thought problems, attention problems, aggressive behavior, and delinquent behaviors.

The PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales are multidimensional child self-report and parent proxy-report scales developed as the generic core measure to be integrated with the PedsQL Disease-Specific Modules. The PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales consist of 23 items applicable for healthy school and community populations, as well as pediatric populations with acute and chronic health conditions; The PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales instrument consists of the following 4 domains: (1) physical functioning, (2) emotional functioning, (3) social functioning, and (4) school functioning. It includes formats for typically developing children and adolescents 2 to 18 years old (parent-proxy report) and 5 to 18 years old (self-report); Higher scores indicate better HRQOL