Last update : 09/05/2017 | Version : 1 | ID : 9327
General | |
Identification | |
Detailed name | Cross-sectional Study on Epileptic Patients Living in Martinique |
Sign or acronym | EPIMART |
CNIL registration number, number and date of CPP agreement, AFSSAPS (French Health Products Safety Agency) authorisation | CNIL approval |
General Aspects | |
Medical area |
Neurology |
Health determinants |
Geography Lifestyle and behavior |
Keywords | French West Indies, Martinique, incidence |
Scientific investigator(s) (Contact) | |
Name of the director | Jallon |
Surname | Pierre |
Address | CEA |
pierre.jallon@cea.fr | |
Unit | Unité d'épileptologie et d'EEG |
Organization | Hôpital Cantonal de |
Collaborations | |
Funding | |
Funding status |
Public |
Details | Cantonal Hospital of Geneva |
Governance of the database | |
Sponsor(s) or organisation(s) responsible | CEA |
Organisation status |
Public |
Additional contact | |
Main features | |
Type of database | |
Type of database |
Study databases |
Study databases (details) |
Not-repeated cross-sectional studies (except case control studies) |
Database recruitment is carried out by an intermediary |
A selection of health care professionals |
Database recruitment is carried out as part of an interventional study |
No |
Additional information regarding sample selection. | Individuals attending a hospital or neurologist on the island after their first spontaneous epileptic seizure were recruited for the study. |
Database objective | |
Main objective | To determine the overall incidence of epileptic seizures within the island population and to identify clinical seizure type and factors. |
Inclusion criteria |
- Male and female;
- Living in Martinique; - Experienced an epileptic seizure between 01/05/1994 and 31/04/1995. |
Population type | |
Age |
Early childhood (2 to 5 years) Childhood (6 to 13 years) Adolescence (13 to 18 years) Adulthood (19 to 24 years) Adulthood (25 to 44 years) Adulthood (45 to 64 years) |
Population covered |
Sick population |
Gender |
Male Woman |
Geography area |
Departmental |
French regions covered by the database |
Martinique |
Detail of the geography area | Island of Martinique. |
Data collection | |
Dates | |
Date of first collection (YYYY or MM/YYYY) | 05/1994 |
Date of last collection (YYYY or MM/YYYY) | 04/1995 |
Size of the database | |
Size of the database (number of individuals) |
< 500 individuals |
Details of the number of individuals | 309 |
Data | |
Database activity |
Data collection completed |
Type of data collected |
Clinical data Declarative data Paraclinical data |
Clinical data (detail) |
Direct physical measures |
Declarative data (detail) |
Paper self-questionnaire |
Paraclinical data (detail) | - Electroencephalography (EEG) - computed tomography. |
Presence of a biobank |
No |
Health parameters studied |
Health event/morbidity Health event/mortality |
Procedures | |
Participant monitoring |
No |
Links to administrative sources |
No |
Promotion and access | |
Promotion | |
Link to the document | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1528-1157.1999.tb00826.x/pdf |
Link to the document | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9773072 |
Access | |
Terms of data access (charter for data provision, format of data, availability delay) | Contact the scientist in charge. |
Access to aggregated data |
Access on specific project only |
Access to individual data |
Access on specific project only |
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