| Summary: | Introduction: Epilepsy is one of the chronic neurological
disorders with an incidence rate of
3% in the normal population. Epilepsy may
render behavioral changes so that affected people are prone to prolonged
interpersonal difficulties. In order to evaluate co-morbidities and potential
personality changes, the study was conducted among the patients with epilepsy
in an Iranian population.
Methods: The
study was a cross-sectional one with a convenience sampling method. The data of
74 patients with epilepsy and 74 non-epileptic patients were collected by clinical
interview and Millon clinical multiaxial inventory (MCMI-III) and were analyzed
by SPSS software.
Results: The
average age was 31.70. The highest scores gained in epileptic patients were in
narcissistic 14.04 (4.53%), obsessive 14.26 (4.30%), and negativistic domains
14.15 (5.24%), while histrionic 76.38 (28.54%) and obsessive 61.74 (24.03%)
patterns were obtained in
non-epilepticpeople. There were significant differences between the two groups
in all areas except for the debasement index (Z score) and the negativistic
personality disorder. There was a significant positive correlation between
narcissistic and obsessive personality patterns and post-traumatic stress
disorder with education, as well as between sex and drug dependency. Economic
and marital status showed correlations with schizoid personality and sadistic
personality, respectively.
Conclusion:
Patients with tonic-clonic seizures have although difficulties
in personality (negativistic) and clinical syndrome areas but the results
showed lower scores in subscales except
for disclosure (X index) compared with non-epileptic individuals. They are more
inclined to disclose the problems with worse mental health conditions than non-epileptic
people.
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