Influence of seizure content on interpreting psychopathology on the MMPI-2 in patients with epilepsy.

J Clin Exp Neuropsychol

Department of Psychological Services, University Hospital, London, Ontario, Canada.

Published: June 1997

We investigated whether seizure content items inflate MMPI-2 scores in persons with epilepsy. A mean MMPI-2 profile was generated for 100 epilepsy patients. Two expert raters then identified MMPI-2 items reflecting seizure symptoms. When individual profiles were rescored to remove elevations caused by seizure content, some statistically significant (but not clinically significant) decreases were observed. The MMPI-2 appears to be a valid assessment instrument in epilepsy. In most cases seizure content did not alter clinical interpretation. When the interest is in detecting symptom change, assessing both statistical and clinical significance is recommended in future MMPI-2 research.

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