Epilepsy-related employment prevalence and retirement incidence in the German working population: 1994–2009

Employment in people with epilepsy from the perspectives of patients, neurologists, and the general population

“…This may be affected by the considerable social and economic changes that took place in Poland in recent years. A considerable increase in the employment index was also observed in Germany in 1994 (63.5%) and 2009 (76.9%), which, according to the authors, was due to more effective antiepileptic medications and more beneficial legal solutions [17]. Despite a positive trend, the proportion of PWE employed in Poland (49%) seems to be still small, compared to 58% PWE who were employed in Spain during that time [5] and 76.9% in Germany [17] Fig.…”

Employability in people with epilepsy: A systematic review

“…of sick leaves (Lassouw et al, 1997) Vocational training (Lassouw et al, 1997) Injury frequency during seizure attack (Dennerll et al, 1966) Others: Seizure diagnosis (Herodes et al, 2001;Sillanpaa et al, 1998;Wheless, 2006) Seizure severity (De Boer, 2005;Lim et al, 2013c) Epilepsy Type (Lim et al, 2013c;Pal et al, 2008) Age of surgery epilepsy (George et al, 2009;Zarroli et al, 2011) Having partial seizure history (Jacoby et al, 2005) Seizure epilepticus (Sillanpaa and Schmidt, 2010) Responsiveness to AED (Lim et al, 2013c) Side effect of AED (Wheless, 2006) Medicine compliance (Chen et al, 2010) Approval of LEV (Korchounov et al, 2012) History of psychotic test (Wada et al, 2001) Post ATL follow-up duration (George et al, 2009) Others: Types of antiepileptic drug (Haag et al, 2010) Use of antiepileptic drugs (Jacoby et al, 2005) History of Convulsion (Bautista and Wludyka, 2007) History of GTC in last year (Lee, 2005) Side effect of AED (Bautista and Wludyka, 2007) Side of lesion (Bautista and Wludyka, 2007;Zarroli et al, 2011) Timing of seizure attack (Elwes et al, 1991;Lee, 2005;The RESt-1 Group, 2000) Others:…”

“…Legislation against discrimination at workplace was enacted in order to protect and provide support to PWE in some Western countries such as the American Disability Act (ADA) in US and Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) in UK. A decline in retired incidence in PWE was reported to be temporarily associated with Law on Support of Employment in 1996, in Germany (Korchounov et al, 2012). Restriction in the eligibility to drive in PWE would limit the employment opportunities in person with epilepsy (Pal et al, 2008).…”

Employability among people with uncontrolled seizures: An interpretative phenomenological approach

“…Studies in Asian populations reported an employment rate of 58%-89% among patients with epilepsy [15][16][17][18], similar to those reported in the West [6,7,[19][20][21][22][23][24][25]. However, factors affecting the employability in Asia are likely different from those affecting the employability in the West culturally, socially, and economically.…”