yemenjmedYemen Journal of MedicinecoVolume 4 Issue 2MultidisciplinaryEnglishMay-August 2025NNY20250922ArticleEffectiveness of Sleep Deprivation for Electroencephalographic Recordings in Children with Epilepsy with or Without Cerebral Palsy at a Nigerian Tertiary HospitalEnglishY342347Mikailu AbubakarJangebe1EnglishNHamiduAhmed1EnglishYMurtala MuhammadAhmad1EnglishYFatima BelloJiya1EnglishYJoy AdamaLegbo1EnglishYKhadijat OmenekeIsezuo1EnglishYAhmedKubrat1EnglishYFatima AbubakarIshaq1EnglishYSurajoIbrahim1EnglishY10.63475/yjm.v4i2.00117Background: Epilepsy and cerebral palsy (CP) are reported as the two most common indications for electroencephalogram (EEG) requests in children in Nigeria. Although several studies have examined epilepsy and EEG findings in the country, most have not documented the conditions under which EEG recordings were performed—whether during wakefulness, natural sleep, sleep deprivation, or drug-induced sleep. This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of sleep deprivation and the use of melatonin in achieving sleep EEG recordings in children with epilepsy and CP versus those with epilepsy without CP, at the Pediatric Neurology Clinic of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto, Nigeria. Methods: This was a cross-sectional comparative study involving children aged 6 months to 15 years, conducted between March 2022 and February 2023. A total of 121 subjects with epilepsy associated with CP (Group 1) and 124 subjects with epilepsy not associated with CP (Group 2) were consecutively recruited. Conventional inter-ictal sleep EEG recordings were performed using an EEG machine (Model: Satellite P200-132, Toshiba Europe GmbH, DC 19V, 3.4A). Data were analyzed using SPSS version 25.0, and a p-value ofEnglishSleep deprivation, sleep induction, EEG, children, epilepsy, cerebral palsyhttps://www.yemenjmed.com/admin/abstract?id=223References1619