Abstract

Epilepsy is a common neuropsychiatric disease in which a number of personality characteristics change. Motivation takes one of the main places in the structure of the patient's personality. Motivation largely determines human behavior, is an important component, since it helps to understand the features and directions of human activity. A motive is an impulse to activity, which is associated with the goal of satisfying the arisen desires. Only by understanding how the patient's motivational-need sphere is arranged, it is possible to determine the patient's role, the degree of his participation in treatment-and-prophylactic measures, as well as influence the formation of motivation, motivate the sick person for educational activities, labor, production activities, etc. The study of the characteristics of the patient's motivational-need sphere is necessary in order to understand how the patient's motivation is formed in the treatment process, how important it is in his life and whether the patient will be able to effectively manage life, enjoy reality, successfully look and plan the future, precisely based on his own motive. That is why the problem of motivation is very relevant at the present time. This work analyzes the features of the motivational-need-related sphere of patients with epilepsy. The study included 317 patients aged 18 to 65 years with focal forms of epilepsy, whose structure was dominated by simple, complex partial seizures. Verification of the diagnosis in the examined patients was carried out on the basis of the results of clinical neurological, psychopathological, pathopsychological, electroencephalographic examination and computed tomography of the brain. The study used a methodology for assessing the level of claims: V. Gerbachevsky's questionnaire. Clinical and psychological research of patients with epilepsy made it possible to substantiate the choice of 2 clusters: the first cluster included able-bodied working patients – n=131 (41.3%), the second cluster - non-working patients – n=186 (58.7%). In the 1st cluster, indicators on the scales "Level of mobilization of efforts", "Regularity of results", "Cognitive motive" prevail, in the 2nd cluster indicators on the scale "Avoidance" prevail. Taking into account the motivational-need-oriented orientation of the patient is an important component in the construction of therapeutic programs aimed at improving the quality of medical care.

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