Epilepsy Impact Scale

Questionnaire Development for a Comprehensive Scale to Measure the Impact of Epilepsy on Life.

The investigators are developing a questionnaire that can quickly measure the impact that epilepsy has on a person's life. This questionnaire will be useful in following whether the impact of epilepsy increases, decreases or stays the same over time. The results also may point out areas that would benefit from discussion or attention in visits with your doctor.

The investigators have used a set of broad open-ended questions about the impact of epilepsy on a person's life to formulate a long list of questions to characterize the impact the seizures, medications, and comorbidities that you are having. In the future, this will be boiled down to a short list of questions.

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Age 18 or more.
2. Patient has had at least 1 seizure in the past 365 days.
3. Patient can speak and understand English.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Patients suspected of having one of the imitators of epilepsy, for example, syncope, sleep disorder, psychogenic nonepileptic seizures, will be excluded, even if they also have epileptic seizures.
2. Patients unwilling to spend the time doing the questionnaire.