Personality profiles and clinical syndromes of patients withtonic-clonic seizures
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 c...
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author | Ali Reza Shafiee-Kandjani Mohammad Yahyavi -Mazraeh shadi Asghar Arfaie Salman Safikhanlou Mohsen Jafarzadeh-Gharaziaddin |
author_facet | Ali Reza Shafiee-Kandjani Mohammad Yahyavi -Mazraeh shadi Asghar Arfaie Salman Safikhanlou Mohsen Jafarzadeh-Gharaziaddin |
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description | 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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spelling | doaj.art-a694c80e4d2045ddb11225c760a61a4e2022-12-21T18:56:48ZengTabriz University of Medical SciencesJournal of Analytical Research in Clinical Medicine2345-49702018-03-0161132110.15171/jarcm.2018.003JARCM_2672_20171114160402Personality profiles and clinical syndromes of patients withtonic-clonic seizuresAli Reza Shafiee-Kandjani0Mohammad Yahyavi -Mazraeh shadi1Asghar Arfaie2Salman Safikhanlou3Mohsen Jafarzadeh-Gharaziaddin4Social Determinants of Health Research Center, AND Department of Psychiatry, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, IranResearch Center of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, IranResearch Center of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, IranResearch Center of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, IranResearch Center of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, IranIntroduction: 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.http://journals.tbzmed.ac.ir/JARCM/Manuscript/JARCM-6-13.pdfEpilepsyTonic-ClonicPersonalityPersonality Disorder |
spellingShingle | Ali Reza Shafiee-Kandjani Mohammad Yahyavi -Mazraeh shadi Asghar Arfaie Salman Safikhanlou Mohsen Jafarzadeh-Gharaziaddin Personality profiles and clinical syndromes of patients withtonic-clonic seizures Journal of Analytical Research in Clinical Medicine Epilepsy Tonic-Clonic Personality Personality Disorder |
title | Personality profiles and clinical syndromes of patients withtonic-clonic seizures |
title_full | Personality profiles and clinical syndromes of patients withtonic-clonic seizures |
title_fullStr | Personality profiles and clinical syndromes of patients withtonic-clonic seizures |
title_full_unstemmed | Personality profiles and clinical syndromes of patients withtonic-clonic seizures |
title_short | Personality profiles and clinical syndromes of patients withtonic-clonic seizures |
title_sort | personality profiles and clinical syndromes of patients withtonic clonic seizures |
topic | Epilepsy Tonic-Clonic Personality Personality Disorder |
url | http://journals.tbzmed.ac.ir/JARCM/Manuscript/JARCM-6-13.pdf |
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