Level of acceptance of illness and its association with quality of life of patients with epilepsy
Introduction: Epilepsy is a chronic neurological illness with a dynamic course. Seizures are temporary, violent discharges of neurons manifested in a sudden onset of consciousness, movement or behavioral disorders. This illness is caused by many factors. It can manifest itself at any age from the ne...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Śląski Uniwersytet Medyczny w Katowicach
2025-04-01
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| Series: | Annales Academiae Medicae Silesiensis |
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| Online Access: | https://annales.sum.edu.pl/Level-of-acceptance-of-illness-and-its-association-with-quality-of-life-of-patients,200012,0,2.html |
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| Summary: | Introduction: Epilepsy is a chronic neurological illness with a dynamic course. Seizures are temporary, violent discharges of neurons manifested in a sudden onset of consciousness, movement or behavioral disorders. This illness is caused by many factors. It can manifest itself at any age from the neonatal period to old age. The illness imposes restrictions on everyday life. The aim of the study was to assess the level of acceptance of the illness and its relationship with the quality of life of patients with epilepsy.
Material and methods: In this work, the diagnostic survey method was employed with the use of questionnaires: Acceptance of Illness Scale (AIS) and 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36). The material was sorted by means of MS Excel spreadsheet and JASP statistical software. The collected information was visualized using tables and figure.
Results: Most of the subjects had trouble adapting to the restrictions imposed by the illness. The patients who accepted the illness showed a higher quality of life than the patients who did not accept it. With the rise in the incidence of seizures, acceptance of the illness decreased and the quality of life of the respondents deteriorated. Neither acceptance of the illness nor quality of life of the respondents changed significantly with the increase in the duration of the illness.
Conclusions: Acceptance of the illness is one of the most important elements of the patient adapting to life with a chronic or incurable illness. Its level in the examined group was influenced by education and the frequency of seizures; it was not affected by gender, or having a family. Illness acceptance showed a strong correlation with quality of life. |
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| ISSN: | 1734-025X |