Quality of life of people with epilepsy following temporal lobectomy: A preliminary report

This is a preliminary report of the quality of life of 9 people, 5 men and 4 women, in Hong Kong who underwent temporal lobectomy for seizure control. The Chinese version of World Health Organization Quality of Life Measure A bbreviated Version, validated in Hong Kong, was used as the outcome measure . Analysis suggested that the quality of life of these participants after s uccessful temporal lobectomy was poorer than that of 157 healthy controls i n the physical and psychological domains as measured. This suggests that ot her factors in addition to achieving complete seizure control play signific ant roles in promoting the quality of life of such patients.