Patients' aims for epilepsy surgery: desires beyond seizure freedom.

Abstract:

PURPOSE:To evaluate prospectively patient's aims for epilepsy surgery as previously outlined theoretically by Taylor et al. (Epilepsia 1997;3:625-30). METHODS:Ninety-three consecutive patients were interviewed by a psychiatrist as part of their evaluation for epilepsy surgery. Open-ended questions about the patient were asked, and carers' aims or ambitions for change as a result of putative relief of seizures were elicited. The interviewer aimed to obtain a maximum of five aims for later follow-up purposes. These questions were part of an extensive psychiatric interview that is described. RESULTS:The aims of 69 patients or carers were analyzed. The 204 statements of aims were grouped into 59 categories initially. The five most frequently cited constituted 50% of all the aims listed. These aims were desire for work, driving of motor vehicles, independence, socializing, and freedom from drugs. The patients rarely identified a desire for improvement in cognitive functioning as an aim for epilepsy surgery. A final analysis into six categories showed that changes in social process predominated, even over changes in personal behavior. CONCLUSIONS:The social and personal aims to accompany relief of epilepsy identified by patients are consistent with the literature on psychosocial adjustment to epilepsy.

journal_name

Epilepsia

journal_title

Epilepsia

authors

Taylor DC,McMacKin D,Staunton H,Delanty N,Phillips J

doi

10.1046/j.1528-1157.2001.34400.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2001-05-01 00:00:00

pages

629-33

issue

5

eissn

0013-9580

issn

1528-1167

pii

epi34400

journal_volume

42

pub_type

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