Browsing by Autor "Vito Sofia"
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Item type: Item , A screening questionnaire for convulsive seizures: A three-stage field-validation in rural Bolivia(Public Library of Science, 2017) Loretta Giuliano; Calogero Edoardo Cicero; Elizabeth Blanca Crespo Gómez; Sandra Padilla; Elisa Bruno; Mário E. Camargo; Benôıt Marin; Vito Sofia; Pierre‐Marie Preux; Marianne StrohmeyerOur screening tool shows a good accuracy and can be easily used by trained health workers to quickly screen the population of the rural communities of LAC through the householders using a three-stage design.Item type: Item , Epilepsy and Neurocysticercosis in Rural Bolivia: A Population‐based Survey(Wiley, 2005) Alessandra Nicoletti; Alessandro Bartoloni; Vito Sofia; Filippo Bartalesi; Josè Rosado Chavez; Rimberto Osinaga; Franco Paradisi; Jean‐Luc Dumas; Victor C. W. Tsang; A. ReggioOur data confirm a high frequency of NCC among a well-defined prevalent cohort of epilepsy patients.Item type: Item , Epilepsy-associated stigma in Bolivia: A community‐based study among the Guarani population(Elsevier BV, 2012) Elisa Bruno; Alessandro Bartoloni; Vito Sofia; Florentina Rafael; Donata Magnelli; Sandra Padilla; Graziella Quattrocchi; Filippo Bartalesi; Higinio Segundo; Mario ZappiaItem type: Item , Knowledge and attitudes towards epilepsy among nonmedical health workers in rural Bolivia: Results after a long-term activity in the Chaco region(Elsevier BV, 2018) Loretta Giuliano; Calogero Edoardo Cicero; Sandra Padilla; Mário E. Camargo; Vito Sofia; Mario Zappia; Alessandro Bartoloni; Elizabeth Blanca Crespo Gómez; Alessandra NicolettiItem type: Item , Knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards epilepsy among general practitioners in rural Bolivia: Results before and after a training program on epilepsy(Elsevier BV, 2018) Loretta Giuliano; Calogero Edoardo Cicero; Sandra Padilla; Mário E. Camargo; Vito Sofia; Mario Zappia; Alessandro Bartoloni; Elizabeth Blanca Crespo Gómez; Alessandra NicolettiItem type: Item , Knowledge, stigma, and quality of life in epilepsy: Results before and after a community-based epilepsy awareness program in rural Bolivia(Elsevier BV, 2019) Loretta Giuliano; Calogero Edoardo Cicero; Sandra Padilla; David Rojo Mayaregua; Walter Mario Camargo Villarreal; Vito Sofia; Mario Zappia; Alessandro Bartoloni; Elizabeth Blanca Crespo Gómez; Alessandra NicolettiItem type: Item , Lifetime Prevalence of Bell’s Palsy in Rural Bolivia: A Door-to-Door Survey(Karger Publishers, 2002) Alessandra Nicoletti; Vito Sofia; Alessandro Bartoloni; Filippo Bartalesi; C Marletta; Maria Luisa Lo Bartolo; José Rosado; Francesco Le Pira; A. ReggioWe carried out a door-to-door survey in rural areas of the Cordillera Province, Bolivia, to determine the prevalence of the most common neurological diseases in a sample of about 10,000 inhabitants. A team of non-doctor health workers administered a standard screening instrument for neurological diseases, a slightly modified version of the World Health Organization protocol. All subjects found positive at the screening phase underwent a complete neurological examination. On screening, we found 1,130 positive subjects, of whom 909 were aged 15 years and above. After the neurological examination, we found 52 cases who had experienced Bell's palsy during their life in the population aged 15 years and above. The lifetime prevalence on November 1, 1994 was 11.1/1,000 (95% confidence interval 7.8-14.5) for the population aged 15 years and above. The prevalence was higher in women than in men (13.7 and 8.7/1,000, respectively) and increased with age, reaching a peak in the group aged 65 years or more (31.7/1,000). Only 3 cases (5.8%) had received medical therapy.Item type: Item , Natural history and mortality of chronic epilepsy in an untreated population of rural Bolivia: A follow‐up after 10 years(Wiley, 2009) Alessandra Nicoletti; Vito Sofia; Giuseppina Vitale; Sara Irene Bonelli; Vladimir Bejarano; Filippo Bartalesi; Duc‐Si Tran; Pierre‐Marie Preux; Mario Zappia; Alessandro BartoloniOur data suggest that spontaneous remission of epilepsy occurs in a substantial proportion of untreated patients affected by chronic epilepsy; concerning mortality, we found a 3-fold increased mortality in patients with remote symptomatic epilepsy.Item type: Item , Prevalence and Incidence of Epilepsy Associated with Convulsive Seizures in Rural Bolivia. A Global Campaign against Epilepsy Project(Public Library of Science, 2015) Elisa Bruno; Graziella Quattrocchi; Elizabeth Blanca Crespo Gómez; Vito Sofia; Sandra Padilla; Mário E. Camargo; Mario Zappia; Alessandro Bartoloni; Alessandra Nicolettithe present study demonstrated a considerable burden of EACS in the Bolivian Chaco, showing prevalence and incidence estimates close to those reported for low and middle- income countries and underlying the need of treatment programs.Item type: Item , Sociocultural dimension of epilepsy: An anthropological study among Guaraní communities in Bolivia—An International League Against Epilepsy/International Bureau for Epilepsy/World Health Organization Global Campaign Against Epilepsy Regional Project(Elsevier BV, 2011) Elisa Bruno; Alessandro Bartoloni; Vito Sofia; Florentina Rafael; Donata Magnelli; Elio Quiala Ortiz; Sandra Padilla; Graziella Quattrocchi; Filippo Bartalesi; Higinio Segundo