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The mentally handicapped person with epilepsy: a comparative study investigating psychosocial functioning
Author(s) -
ESPIE C. A.,
PASHLEY A. S.,
BONHAM K. G.,
SOURINDHRIN I.,
O'DONOVAN M.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1989.tb01459.x
Subject(s) - epilepsy , psychosocial , psychology , psychiatry , disturbance (geology) , clinical psychology , mentally retarded , developmental psychology , biology , paleontology
. A sample of institutionalized, mentally handicapped adults who suffered from epilepsy was compared with a matched control group without epilepsy in order to investigate profiles of adaptive skills and of behavioural disturbance. Results suggested that mentally handicapped people with epilepsy have consistently poorer life skills than their peers with no epilepsy but behavioural disturbance was not significantly elevated, except for a small sub‐group whose epilepsy was resistant to pharmacological control. These results are discussed with reference to past research and management implications are considered.