Behavioural Problems & Expressed Emotions in Epileptic Adult

Abstract

Purpose: Adults with epilepsy have high rates of behavior problems. The purpose was to describe presence of behavioural problems in adults with epilepsy and role of perceived expressed emotion.
Methods: Caregiver's ratings of the behavioural problems were collected with the help of scale used to assess the presence of behavioural problems in 30 male and females adult. Presence of expressed emotion was calculated with the help of expressed emotion with the help of Mean and Standard Deviation
Results: On average, male participant had higher behavioural problems during the course of epilepsy. Female participant manifested less number of behaviour problems when compared with male.
Conclusions: Seizures significantly predicted behaviour problems in the course of a seizure condition, even when patients were on regular medicine. Both seizures and expressed emotions along with behaviour problems are risk factor & comments that seizures per se may not disrupt behaviour but role of expressed emotion should not be underestimated.