Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Volume 13 Issue 1
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- Pages.67-75
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- 2002
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- 2233-9183(eISSN)
CHILDREN WITH CHRONIC CONVULSIVE DISORDER AND THEIR FAMILIES
경련성 질환 환아와 가족
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Cho, Soo-Churl
(Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Neuropsychiatry, Seoul National University Hospital) ;
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Kim, Boong-Nyun
(Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Neuropsychiatry, Seoul National University Hospital)
- Published : 2002.12.31
Abstract
Objectives:This study was conducted to investigate the degree of psychopathologies of the family members of children with chronic convulsive disorder and evaluate the structures and dynamics of those families. Methods:The participant patients and family members were recruited from the population attending the outpatient clinic of department of pediatric neurology in Seoul National University Hospital in Korea. All the patients had idiopathic chronic convulsive disorder. Any patient with mental retardation, pervasive developmental disorder and gross brain pathology was excluded. As controls, normal students were chosen and their sex, age, achievement, socioeconomic status were matched to patients. The author interviewed the children and their family members twice and obtained informations about patient-parent relationship, patient-sibling relationship and others. For in-depth evaluation, we used family environment scales(FES), symptom Checklist-90-revised(SCL-90-R), self administered dependency questionnaire for mother(SADQ). Results:After interviewing with the parents of epileptic children, overprotection of parents, hostile feeling of siblings toward index children were higher than controls. The parental conflict was also more expressed than control families. According to results from FES, the scores of the subscales of expression, achievement-orientation, intelligence-orientation and active recreation were significantly lower than control group. The epileptic children showed higher dependency to parents especially in affection, communication and traveling areas of SADQ than control group. Maternal psychopathologies evaluated by SCL-90-R were much higher than the mothers of controls. According to T scores of SCL-90-R, about 40% of mothers with epileptic children had the risk of clinically significant depressive or anxiety disorders. Conclusion:These results suggested that the family members of epileptic children had more relationship problems and psychopathologies than control group and some mothers might have clinically significant depressive or anxiety disorders. so, effective psychiatric family interventions are needed for resolution of conflict and psychopathologies of family members.
연구목적:만성경련 환아의 가족 구성원들의 정신병리와 환아와의 관계를 평가하기 위해 본 연구를 실시하였다. 환아 어머니의 정신병리와 환아와의 관계 및 부부관계를 조사하였고, 환아 아버지와 타 형제들과 환아와의 관계를 조사하였으며, 부모와 아동사이의 의존성정도와 가족구조를 평가하였다. 연구방법:만성경련질환 환아40명과 성별-나이-학업수준이 일치하는 대조군 30명을 연구대상으로 하였다. 만성환아군은 12개월 이상 약물 치료를 받고 있는 정상지능의 일반학교를 다니는 특발성 경련질환아였고, 대조군은 특별한 신체질환이 없는 중간성적 정도의 초등중학생으로 하였다.