Advances in Environmental Biology Majid Mahvi-Shirazi, Ebrahim Ahmadi, Masoumeh Beheshti

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Comparing Mental Health Level of Epileptic Patients with Healthy People
Majid Mahvi-Shirazi, Ebrahim Ahmadi, Masoumeh Beheshti
Department of Psychology, Buinzahra Branch, Islamic Azad University, Buinzahra, Iran.
ARTICLE INFO
Article history:
Received 15 March 2014
Received in revised form 9 April 2014
Accepted 2 May 2014
Available online 5 June 2014
Key words:
mental health,
healthy people
epileptic
patients,
ABSTRACT
Background: Health psychology are knowing behaviors and individual life styles that
affect a person’s physical health. Preventing and curing disease, knowing risky factors
related with disease improving health care systems through knowing good exercises and
forming public ides have helped people health. Objective: Present research has studied
a comparison between mental health level of epileptic patients and healthy people. In
this research volume of sample studied has been 60 persons that 30 ones have been
epileptic patients and 30 ones normal and healthy people. Our method has been
available sampling one. For analyzing data through statistical methods independent t
test has been and statistical calculations have been done using SCI 90- r questionnaire
including 90 questions. Results: This research has shown that there isn’t meaningful
difference about mental health between healthy people and epileptic patients. Also
mean of scores of all mental health sub scales of epileptic people is some how higher
than that of healthy people and degree of depression of epileptic patients is higher than
healthy people so we conclude that mental health level of healthy people is higher than
mental health level of epileptic patients. Conclusion: Result of this paper are in
agreement with other paper, this point verify our results and show us that our results
can be applicable.
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To Cite This Article: Majid Mahvi-Shirazi, Ebrahim Ahmadi, Masoumeh Beheshti., Comparing Mental Health Level of Epileptic Patients
with Healthy People. Adv. Environ. Biol., 8(6), 2155-2158, 2014
INTRODUCTION
Health psychology is knowing behaviors and individual life styles that affect a person’s physical health.
Preventing and curing disease, knowing risky factors related with disease improving health care systems through
knowing good exercises and forming public ides have helped peoples health [1,2,3]. Using psychological
principles about health have helped arrange of positive out comes that among them we can name of: lowering
blood pressure controlling cholesterol level of blood giving up cigarettes preventing and confronting with cancer
and aids and modifying unsafe behaviors. Fields and ways of preventing and promoting health and well- being
level such as: different tendencies of health different skills of medicine different branches of psychology
physiology and sociology and in fact there is a kind of similarity among them [4,5,6].
Research Method:
In the present research comparing method has been used in this case that independent variable I mean
epilepsy has already happened and it isn’t manipulate able and control able by the researcher but its effects are
measurable and study able. So it is tried to by variables explain their probable relations with hypothetical
independent variable or epilepsy in this way that after doing the test we can compare normal and epileptic
people. In this research studied universe were all epileptic people between 20-50 years old that as out patients
had gone to the center of supporting from Iran,s epilepsy society for following epilepsy therapy. Witness group
from normal people had the same age range and healthy people that were tested were those who had come to the
center with epileptic patients. It should be said that compared groups matched with each other from the point of
age sex marriage situation job situation social and economical situation. A sample with 60 people (30 epileptic
ones, 30 healthy ones) was selected with the above said cases. Sampling used in this research was available
sampling method. In this way that some people went to the above mentioned cure center and by studying
medical records of patients who had gone there or doctor confirmed their epilepsy and had gone there for getting
brain strip were chosen for this research. About choosing healthy people samples it should be said that they had
the same situations with this difference that they didn’t have any mental or physical disease and they had gone
to that clinic with patients as their companions [7,8,9]. The device for gathering data in this research is that
Corresponding Author: Majid Mahvi-Shirazi, Department of Psychology, Buinzahra Branch, Islamic Azad University,
Buinzahra, Iran.
E-mail: [email protected]
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doesn’t have any clear and certain norm and for using in any group sectional selection norm should be done, and
almost it is used with usual form along with other tests for knowing personality different group that the test has
been done for them. This test has 90 questions for measuring mental signs that is completed by the responder
[10,11,12]. This test for the first time showed that psychological sides of physical and mental patens have
already been designed. Their primary from were prepared by Dirogatiz, Lip man and Kouri. On the basis of
clinical experiences and psychometrics analyzes they were reviewed and at last the final form was prepared
[13,14,15].
Results:
In this part, research data are measured and studied using statistical tests for studying main hypothesis of
the research in a way that after seeing answers and recording data in SPSS software and extracting the results
descriptive information are presented in descriptive tables. Frequency distribution of studied subjects in healthy
group and group of epileptic patients are presented in table one according to their age.
Table 1: frequency distribution of studied sample in healthy group and group of epileptic patients according to the age.
Group
Healthy
group of epileptic patients
age
Frequency
Percent
Frequency
Percent
Between 20 t0 30
11
36.7
11
36.7
Between 31 t0 40
11
36.7
11
36.7
Between 41 t0 50
8
26.7
8
26.7
Total
30
100
30
100
As it is seen in table 1 in healthy and epileptic groups in age range between 20- 30 years old there are
36.7% in age range between 31-40 years old there are 26.7% of people. Frequency distribution of studied
subjects in healthy and epileptic groups according to the sex are presented in table 2.
Table 2: frequency distribution of studied sample in healthy and epileptic groups according to the sex.
Group
Healthy
group of epileptic patients
Sex
Frequency
Percent
Frequency
Percent
Woman
15
50
15
50
Man
15
50
15
50
Total
30
100
30
100
As it is seen in table 2, in healthy and patient groups there are 50 percent men and 50 percent women.
Frequency distribution of studied subjects in healthy and epileptic groups according to their marriage
situation is presented in table 3.
Table 3: Frequency distribution of studied sample in healthy and epileptic groups according to marriage situation.
Group
Healthy
group of epileptic patients
Mariage Condition
Frequency
Percent
Frequency
Percent
Married
15
50
15
50
Unmarried
15
50
15
50
Total
30
100
30
100
As it is seen in table 3, in healthy and patient groups there are 50% married ones and 50% are unmarried
ones frequency distribution of studied subjects in healthy and epileptic groups according to their employment
situation is presented in table 4.
Table 4: Frequency distribution of studied sample in healthy and epileptic groups according to their employment situation.
Group
Healthy
group of epileptic patients
Job Condition
Frequency
Percent
Frequency
Percent
Employed
15
50
15
50
Unemployed
15
50
15
50
Total
30
100
30
100
As it is seen in table 4, in healthy and patient groups there are 50% employed people and 50% are unemployed ones.
Frequency distribution of studied subjects in healthy and epileptic groups according to their previous record
of mental and physical illness is presented in table 5.
Table 5: Frequency distribution of studied sample in healthy and epileptic groups according to their record of mental and physical illness.
Group
Responce
Healthy
group of epileptic patients
History of illness
Frequency
Percent
Frequency
Percent
Mental Illness
Yes
0
0
0
0
No
30
100
30
100
Physical Illness
Yes
0
0
0
0
No
30
100
30
100
Total
30
100
30
100
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Results of table 5 show that in non of the groups (healthy or epileptic ones) there haven’t been a record of
mental disorder, but in epileptic group all have had the record of physical disease.
After that mean and standard deviation of scores of mental health sub- scale about healthy and epileptic
groups are presented in descriptive tables.
Table 6: Shows mean and standard deviation of mental health sub- scales in healthy and epileptic groups.
Variable
Healthy Group
Unhealthy Group
Mean
Standard Deviation
Mean
Standard Deviation
Agression
4.47
3.45
4.67
3.24
Stress
5.17
4.34
9.27
5.54
Obsession
6.67
5.29
8.53
6.51
Individual susceptibility
6.97
6.10
9.33
6.36
Physical Complain
7.70
5.75
8.60
4.97
Worried Mental
4.40
5.41
6.87
6.54
Depression
9.70
9.20
12.87
8.84
Fear
2.03
2.17
4.60
3.51
As it is seen in table 6 mean of scores of all mental health sub scales of epileptic people is some how higher
than that of healthy people and degree of depression of epileptic patients is higher than healthy people so we
conclude that mental health level of healthy people is higher than mental health level of epileptic patients.
Table 7: shows mean and standard deviation of illness coefficient of mental health sub- scales in healthy
and epileptic groups.
Table 7: Mean and standard deviation of illness coefficient of mental health sub- scale in healthy and epileptic groups.
Variable
Healthy Group
Unhealthy Group
Mean
Standard Deviation
Mean
Standard Deviation
Agression
0.74
0.58
0.77
0.54
Stress
0.52
0.43
0.93
0.55
Obsession
0.67
0.53
1.03
1.14
Individual susceptibility
0.77
0.68
1.03
0.71
Physical Complain
0.64
0.48
0.71
0.41
Worried Mental
0.44
0.54
0.69
0.65
Depression
0.74
0.71
0.99
0.68
Fear
0.29
0.31
0.65
0.50
As it is seen in table 7, mean of illness coefficient of all mental health sub-scales in epileptic patients is
higher than that of healthy people.
Table 8 shows mean and standard deviation of discomfort coefficient standard in healthy and epileptic
groups.
Table 8: Mean and standard deviation of discomfort coefficient standard (scl 90) in healthy and epileptic groups.
Variable
Healthy
group of epileptic patients
Mean
Standard Deviation
Frequency
GSI
0.67
0.48
0.88
PST
36.83
17.65
47.73
PSDI
0.02
0.01
0.02
Table 8 shows that medium score (GST) and so ( PST) of epileptic patients are higher than healthy persons.
Percent
0.50
14.51
0.01
Discussion and conclusion:
Hypothesis of present research is that: mental health level of healthy people is higher than that of epileptic
patients. On the basis of result of independent t test, the difference between mean of mental health of healthy
people and epileptic patients isn’t meaningful and the hypothesis is rejected. (p˃5%)
Result of this hypothesis with what Stivense et al have done in a research with the topic of disorders of
epileptic patients in relation with this hypothesis that mental health level of healthy persons is higher than that of
epileptic patients show that, although epileptic patients have got higher scores in depression psychosis and
paranoia scales but there isn’t meaningful difference between healthy people and epileptic patients and they are
homolateral.
Result of this hypothesis with what Dardil and Betzel have done in study with the topic of comparing
mental health of healthy persons and epileptic ones in a hospital in U.S.A by SCI 1 90-r in relation with this
hypothesis that mental health of healthy people is higher than epileptic ones show that there isn’t meaningful
difference between then and they are homolateral.
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