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| General | |
| Identification | |
| Detailed name | Cross-sectional Study on Patients With Different Epileptic Seizure Susceptibility: Connection with Video Games |
| General Aspects | |
| Medical area |
Neurology |
| Health determinants |
Lifestyle and behavior |
| Keywords | seizure, video games, television screen, photosensitivity, exposure |
| Scientific investigator(s) (Contact) | |
| Name of the director | Naquet |
| Surname | Robert |
| Address | Institut Alfred Fessard, CNRS, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette |
| Phone | + 33 (0)1 69 07 05 38 |
| robert.naquet@iaf.cnrs-gif.fr | |
| Unit | - |
| Organization | CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche |
| Collaborations | |
| Funding | |
| Funding status |
Public |
| Details | - French Ministry of Economy, Directorate-General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Prevention of Fraud - French Foundation for Epilepsy Research. |
| Governance of the database | |
| Sponsor(s) or organisation(s) responsible | CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| 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 institutions and services |
| Database recruitment is carried out as part of an interventional study |
No |
| Additional information regarding sample selection. | Research teams split subjects into three groups after selection from five French centres:1- A group of 33 patients that previously experienced one or more epileptic seizures only when exposed to a screen (television, video games or other); 2- a group of 42 epileptic photosensitive patients that also experienced seizures that are not triggered by photic stimuli; 3- a final group of 40 non-photosensitive epileptic patients. |
| Database objective | |
| Main objective | To show the effects of video game exposure on individuals that are susceptible to epileptic seizures. |
| Inclusion criteria |
- Male and female;
- between 7 and 30 years old; - Patients with different epileptic seizure susceptibility. |
| Population type | |
| Age |
Childhood (6 to 13 years) Adolescence (13 to 18 years) Adulthood (19 to 24 years) Adulthood (25 to 44 years) |
| Population covered |
Sick population |
| Gender |
Male Woman |
| Geography area |
National |
| Detail of the geography area | France (five centres throughout France: Debrousse Hospital in Lyon, Saint-Paul Centre in Marseilles, Strasbourg Regional University Hospital Centre, Bicêtre Hospital in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre and Charles-Nicolle Hospital in Rouen). |
| Data collection | |
| Dates | |
| Date of first collection (YYYY or MM/YYYY) | 1995 |
| Size of the database | |
| Size of the database (number of individuals) |
< 500 individuals |
| Details of the number of individuals | 115 |
| Data | |
| Database activity |
Data collection completed |
| Type of data collected |
Clinical data |
| Clinical data (detail) |
Direct physical measures |
| Presence of a biobank |
No |
| Health parameters studied |
Health event/morbidity |
| Procedures | |
| Data collection method | Subjects were successively placed in front of a television screen at 2 m, 1 m and 0.5 m. The same 10-minute video tape, consisting of snippets from television programmes, video games and a blank screen, was used in the five centres. Tests also included playing commercial video games on a television screen for 10 minutes, then hand-held video games for another 10 minutes. |
| Participant monitoring |
No |
| Links to administrative sources |
No |
| Promotion and access | |
| Promotion | |
| Link to the document | http://tinyurl.com/PUBMED-EPIL |
| Link to the document | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10367326 |
| Link to the document | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9793055 |
| 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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