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. 2015 Oct 19;17(10):e19393.
doi: 10.5812/ircmj.19393. eCollection 2015 Oct.

Efficacy of Attribution Retraining on Mental Health of Epileptic Children

Masoume Pourmohamadreza Tajrishi  1 , Saeid Abbasi  2 , Tahereh Najafi Fard  2 , Saheb Yousefi  3 , Athar Mohammadi Malek Abadi  3 , Hosein Delavar Kasmaei  4
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Efficacy of Attribution Retraining on Mental Health of Epileptic Children

Masoume Pourmohamadreza Tajrishi et al. Iran Red Crescent Med J. .

Abstract

Background: Epilepsy affects children's quality of life and leads to social and mental problems. Promoting the mental health of children, especially epileptic ones, and preventing problems affecting them constitute major concerns for every country. Mental health promotion requires intervention programs.

Objectives: We sought to assess the efficacy of attribution retraining on the mental health of epileptic children.

Patients and methods: The present study is a semi-experimental investigation with a pretest and posttest design and includes a control group. Thirty children, comprising 17 boys and 13 girls, were selected randomly from the Iranian epilepsy association in Tehran and assigned to experimental and control groups. They answered to the general health questionnaire (Goldberg and Hiller, 1979). The experimental group participated in 11 training sessions (twice a week; 45 minutes for each session) and received attribution retraining. The data were analyzed using the multiple analysis of covariance.

Results: The findings showed that the experimental group, in comparison with the control group, experienced a reduction in physical symptoms, anxiety and insomnia, social dysfunction, and depression and an increase in mental health significantly (P < 0.01) after the training sessions. There were no significant differences, however, between the two groups at 6 weeks' follow-up.

Conclusions: Attribution retraining improved mental health in the epileptic children in our study. It, therefore, seems to be an appropriate intervention for promoting the mental health of children.

Keywords: Attribution Retraining; Epilepsy; Mental Health.

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