Petković I
Institute of Mental Health, Belgrade.
Srp Arh Celok Lek. 1992 Jan-Feb;120(1-2):6-8.
The attitude of 50 employees and 50 students to epileptic patients was studied with the use of the classical scale of Likert's type. It was found that students were more tolerable then the employees. However, they all were humanistic only when general principles were in question i.e. that epileptic persons should not be avoided, but not also in personal contacts (emotional, close relation, professional). The obtained results confirmed the presumption that the problems related to the difficult employment and family-establishment of epileptic subjects was the consequence of negative attitude and prejudices of the environment to such persons. The secondary handicap due to illness frustrates the normal life of these individuals sometimes more than epileptic attacks. This is one of the reasons why physicians should pay additional attention to this problem during the treatment of epileptic patients.
运用经典的李克特式量表，对50名员工和50名学生对癫痫患者的态度进行了研究。结果发现，学生比员工更具宽容性。然而，只有在涉及一般原则时，即不应回避癫痫患者时，他们才都表现出人文关怀，而在个人交往（情感、亲密关系、职业方面）中并非如此。所得结果证实了这样一种推测，即癫痫患者就业困难和组建家庭困难相关问题是环境对这类人负面态度和偏见的结果。疾病导致的继发性障碍有时比癫痫发作更能阻碍这些人的正常生活。这就是医生在治疗癫痫患者时应额外关注这个问题的原因之一。
