کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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6013489 | 1185914 | 2013 | 5 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
- We compared marriage quality of patients with epilepsy with that of healthy controls.
- We explored the factors associated with patients' marital adjustment.
- Marital adjustment of patients with active epilepsy was lower than the controls.
- Depression was a negative predictor of marital adjustment.
- Social support was a positive predictor of marital adjustment.
Marriage is a major source of social support and a predictor of health; however, marriages that involve people with epilepsy are more likely to fail. To explore this issue in China, we compared the marital adjustment of patients with epilepsy to control subjects using the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS). A total of 136 married persons with epilepsy and 145 healthy control subjects were recruited. The DAS score was significantly lower in people with active epilepsy than in the controls (102.0 ± 17.8 vs. 109.2 ± 15.8, p < 0.001). A hierarchical regression showed that depression and social support satisfaction were significant predictors for DAS. Psychosocial variables accounted for 24.0% of the variance in DAS after control for demographic and seizure-related factors in patients with active epilepsy. The result suggests that people with active epilepsy in our sample encountered more marital discord than controls. Treatment to control mood disorder and support intervention might be important for their marital adjustment.
Journal: Epilepsy & Behavior - Volume 28, Issue 1, July 2013, Pages 99-103