EPIMART - Cross-sectional Study on Epileptic Patients Living in Martinique 
Head :
Jallon Pierre , Unité d'épileptologie et d'EEG
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 |
