Parental knowledge and attitudes towards epilepsy –A study from Jordan
| Autor: | Miral Al Momani, Aisha Khasawneh, Faisal A. Khatib, Abdelkarim Al Qudah, Samah K. Aburahma, Amira Masri, Omar Nafi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Male Parents Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice medicine.medical_specialty Neurology Adolescent Higher education Cross-sectional study 03 medical and health sciences Epilepsy 0302 clinical medicine Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Child Parental knowledge Psychiatry Jordan Psychiatric Disease business.industry Normal intelligence Infant General Medicine University hospital medicine.disease Cross-Sectional Studies Child Preschool Income Educational Status Female Neurology (clinical) business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Seizure. 53:75-80 |
| ISSN: | 1059-1311 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.seizure.2017.11.006 |
| Popis: | To explore the knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of parents whose children were diagnosed with epilepsy.Cross-sectional questionnaire based study of parents who accompanied their children with epilepsy to the child neurology clinics at three university hospitals in Jordan.Most parents (427, 90.3%) knew that epilepsy is not related to a psychiatric disease. Approximately half of the parents (245, 51.8%) used the internet as their source of knowledge, and most used Arabic websites. Searching the word epilepsy was rarely used (51, 10.8%). Most of the parents (428,90.5%) were not restricting their children from watching TV or from using the computer (358,75.5%).However, many parents (280,59.2%) were restricting them from participating in sports. Parents had negative attitudes towards epilepsy; 189 (40.0%)thought that epileptic children can have normal intelligence, and 292 (61.7%) thought that they can continue into higher education. Greater parental knowledge of epilepsy was found to be correlated with the parental education level (p0.05).Positive attitudes and behaviors towards epilepsy were found to be correlated with a higher parental education level, control of epilepsy,an absence of associated co morbidities, a higher income and internet use (p0.05).This study sheds an important light on the current knowledge status and attitudes of parents of children with epilepsy, and is an invaluable tool for tailoring the delivery of information and support resources for families in our region. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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