Social readjustment of patients with epilepsy

Abstract

Introduction. In our publication we described the experience of a study in which we analyzed the social characteristics of patients with epilepsy. The conditions of the appearance of the pathology, the influence of different exogenous and endogenous factors on the manifestation of the pathology, the life conditions, level of education, the composition of the patient's family, the working conditions before and after the appearance of the pathology were, and of course the capacity of framing and interaction with the society. The study included 31 subjects age range 20 and 70 years, including 15 women and 16 men. Aim of the study.To study the medical, social, psychological aspects, the degree of intensity and specificity of the epileptic manifestations, the risk of functional degradation of the patients with epilepsy and the level of their social rehabilitation. Materials and methods. An inquiry was formulated including 149 questions regarding the conditions of the pathology, the influence of different exogenous and endogenous factors on the manifestation of the pathology, life conditions, level of education, the composition of the patient's family, the working conditions before and after the appearance of the pathology, and of course the capacity of framing and interaction with the company. The inquiries were completed in the presence of patients hospitalized to the sections of the Clinical Psychiatric Hospital from Chisinau. Results. After analyzing the answers of the inquiries, we can make a characterization of the patients with epilepsy. In the occurrence of epilepsy in over 50% of the analyzed patients prevails the undeterminated factors, in more than 30% prevails traumatic incidents, in about 15% the infections and the chronic intoxication. Complete higher education has 12.9% of the examined patients, incomplete - 9.6%, most of the patients had average (32.2%) and specialized studies (45.3%). 12 women and 11 men were married, or are married. Children have 11 women and 12 men. Conclusions. Social rehabilitation of patients with epilepsy should be based on the social aspects and characteristics of these patients. So we could not talk about an effective rehabilitation as long as we did not know the level of education, the character of the work performed, the composition of the family and the personal characteristics of each individual patient. Now this information can be compared with the general population and used by specialists in the field.