title: [The strategies for psychological self-control of seizures in patients with focal epilepsy].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate self-control strategies for epileptic seizures and their relationship to the individual coping-style in patients with focal epilepsy.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty one adult patients with focal epilepsy were examined. Strategies for seizure control and coping-style were estimated with the CBES-SC and the Brief COPE scale, respectively. The control group consisted of 20 healthy individuals.
  
  
  RESULTS
  86% of patients tried to control their seizures. Most of the patients (33%) preferred to use behavioral self-management strategies, which reduced the consequences of seizure. Patients with the high self-control activity more often had adaptive problem-focused coping-style in comparison to the patients with the low self-control (p<0.01).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The psychological coping-style modifying support can motivate patient to the wider use of strategies for seizure control and improve a psychosocial adjustment of the patient.
authors: Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia.
authors: Yu I
authors: YI
authors: Stadnyuk
authors: Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia.
authors: O V
authors: OV
authors: Vorob'eva
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012640:Seizures / Q000628:therapy*; D000068356:Self-Control; D055815:Young Adult