Abstract

FABELO ROCHE, Justo Reinaldo; ROJAS SANCHEZ, Gladys Alejandra  and  IGLESIAS MORE, Serguei. Good practice guidelines for the social and psychological care to the patient with epilepsy. Rev Cubana Salud Pública [online]. 2015, vol.41, n.2, pp.357-368. ISSN 0864-3466.

The preparation and dissemination of essential intervention guidelines or protocols for the care of patient with epilepsy at the first health care level is gaining importance, since these patients are frequent victims of therapeutic inaccuracies. The objective of this paper was to present good practice guidelines for the psychological and social care of this patient. A content analysis of the reports from research on this topic was made, which were made in Cuba from 2004 to 2013. On the basis of the assessed evidence, good practice guidelines were prepared for the social and psychological care of the patient with epilepsy. They detailed the assistance structure and the necessary material resources for adequate psychological and social care of this patient as well as the procedures of performance in a chronological order: clinical and psychological interview and ideal psychological evaluation techniques. Additionally, the specificities for the clinical and psychological care of the patient with faulty psychosocial adaptation to epilepsy and for the patient with epilepsy and associated emotional disorders were also specified. The guidelines provide working tools to avoid faulty psychosocial adaptation, emotional disorders and inability to self-care in epileptic patients.

Keywords : epilepsy; good practice guidelines; psychological and social care; faulty psychosocial adaptation; emotional disorders.

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