Knowledge about and attitude towards epilepsy among Menit Community, Southwest Ethiopia

Henok, Andualem; Lamaro, Tafesse

doi:10.4314/ejhs.v27i1.7

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“…Regarding the attitude towards epilepsy in our study, 41.3 (95%CI: 37.4, 45.1) of the respondent had an unfavorable attitude towards epilepsy. This study result is in line with the study done in south India (11).but, this finding is lower than the study conducted in Ethiopia (21,23), Uganda (24), Nigeria (25) and Pakistan (26). This might be a difference in community belief and literacy rate across the countries.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…But it is much lower than studies done in southwest Ethiopia (21) and united states (19). This might be due to the study year.…”

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confidence: 55%

“…A compiled data of articles across the world showed that the magnitude of poor knowledge towards epilepsy ranges from 40% to 86 % (19)(20)(21)(22)(23). Unfavorable attitude also ranges from 28% to 87% (11,(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26) Studying knowledge and attitude towards epilepsy in Debre Berhan town enables to know the level of poor knowledge and unfavorable attitude and also it enables to dig out the factors that result in poor knowledge and unfavorable attitude.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Public knowledge and attitude towards epilepsy and its associated factors in Debre Berhan, North Shoa, Amhara Region, Ethiopia, 2018/19. Community-based cross-sectional study

Dargie

Alemnew

Admasu

2019

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Introduction: Epilepsy is chronic brain disorder characterized by recurrent derangement of the nervous system due to sudden excessive disorderly discharge of the cerebral neurons. People living with epilepsy continue to suffer from enacted or perceived stigma that is based on myths, misconceptions, and misunderstandings that have persisted for many years. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the community general knowledge and attitude towards epilepsy. Methods: Community based cross sectional study was conducted to assess public general knowledge and attitude towards epilepsy and its associated factors using structured pretested questionnaire. Data was entered into Epi data version 3.1 and transported to SPSS version 21 further analysis. Both Bivariable and Multivariable Logistic Regression was done to identify associated factors. Odds Ratios and their 95% Confidence interval was computed and variables with p value less than 0.05 was considered significantly associated factors. Results: 596 study participants were participated with a response rate of 98%. Among the study participants 43.6 (95% CI: 39.6, 47.5) had poor knowledge and 41.3 (95% CI: 37.4, 45.1) had unfavorable attitude. Being secondary education, marital status, witnessed seizure, and heard the term epilepsy were showed statistically significant association with poor knowledge about epilepsy. Level of education, low average monthly income, not witnessed seizure, not heard the term epilepsy and distant from health facility showed statically significant association with the unfavorable attitude. Conclusion: In this study, Debre Berhan communities were found to have deficits in terms of general knowledge and attitude about epilepsy; and it should be given due attention.

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confidence: 88%

“…But it is much lower than studies done in southwest Ethiopia (21) and united states (19). This might be due to the study year.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 55%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Public knowledge and attitude towards epilepsy and its associated factors in Debre Berhan, North Shoa, Amhara Region, Ethiopia, 2018/19. Community-based cross-sectional study

Dargie

Alemnew

Admasu

2019

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“…In the case of the above mentioned patient, even though the initial evolution was burdened by multiple convulsive recurrences, once we introduced levetiracetam in the treatment, he no longer presented seizures. Approximately 80% of the cases diagnosed with epilepsy are encountered in developing countries, where this pathology remains a major public health problem (10). The life quality for patients diagnosed with epilepsy is burdened by poor social insertion due to fear, misunderstanding, wrong believes, the lack of knowledge and social discrimination (11).…”

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confidence: 99%

Epilepsy in Child, Particularities Related to Evolution and Prognosis – A Case Report and a Review of the Literature

Meliţ¹,

Mărginean²,

A³

et al. 2017

Ro J Pediatr.

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Epilepsy is a brain pathology that consists in the development of recurrent epileptic seizures, and more than half of the cases present the onset during childhood. We present the case of a 3-year-old male patient, with heredocollateral antecedents of epilepsy and personal history of neuropsychomotor retardation, who was admitted in our clinic presenting generalized tonic clonic seizures, initially febrile and afterwards afebrile. The laboratory tests and the neuroimagistic ones did not identify an underlying cause. The initial EEG did not point out anything pathological. Despite the anticonvulsant treatment, the patient's evolution was unfavorable, presenting multiple short term recurrences, being readmitted multiple times in our clinic. Once we introduced the second anticonvulsant drug, levetiracetam, in his treatment, the seizures disappeared, and the patient presented long term favorable evolution. The case particularity consists in the development of generalized tonic clonic seizures in a patient with significant family history, and personal history of neuropsychomotor retardation that appear initial under febrile context, and afterwards in the lack of fever, repeating cyclic, with unfavorable evolution despite the treatment with valproic acid that disappear only after initiating treatment with levetiracetam.

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“…Several studies focused on epilepsy but more on its definition (Loiseau and Jallon, 1990;Chang and Lowenstein, 2003;Fisher et al, 2014), its epidemiology (Robb,1981;Grunitzky et al, 1991;Lavados et al, 1992;Hauser et al, 1993;Izurieta and Cruz, 1993;Nyame and Biritwum, 1997;Jallon, 2001;Nubukpo et al, 2001;Browne, 2010), its causes (Debouverie et al, 1993;Izurieta and Cruz,1993;Kaboré J 1995, Chilopora et al, 2001Jallon, 2001;Nubukpo, 2001) and its clinical aspects (Debouverie et al, 1993;Kaboré, 1995). These studies have targeted teachers (Kankirawatana, 1999;Birbeck et al, 2006;Akhtar et al, 2007;Thacker et al, 2008;Gebrewol et al, 2016), somewhere community (Thiane and Hadj, 2004;Jalle and Zewdu, 2015;Henok and Lamaro, 2017) and concerned health care workers (Chomba et al, 2007;Harimanana et al, 2013) and health service organization. Knowing that early identification of epilepsy can have a big impact in terms of effective treatment and management, the present study assesses the readiness of the district health system facing epilepsy.…”

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confidence: 99%

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2020

IRJPEH

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Like all non-communicable-diseases in low-income-countries, epilepsy is insufficiently taken into account by health-services. This research aimed to study the knowledge (and related factors) and experiences of health workers regarding epilepsy-management in health-districts from Region of Hauts Bassins (Burkina Faso). Cross-sectional study was conducted from June to September 2015. Health-workers (nurses, care-providers from district-teams and ward supervisors of district-hospitals) were interviewed. Knowledgescore on epilepsy was calculated based on 34 questions, using the median as the threshold. Factors associated (socio-demographic, experiences and organization of services) with good epilepsy-knowledge score were identified by logistic-regressions using SPSS 20.0 software. About 214 health-workers were included. Mean-age of respondents was 36.8 (± 6.2) years; 92.5% were male. Mean epilepsy-knowledge score was 20.5 (95%CI: 20.0-20.9); and 38.8% of respondents had less than the mean epilepsy-knowledge score. Factors influencing the good epilepsy-knowledge score included duration as health worker (p=0.025), having already taken care of an epileptic-seizure (p=0.024), having already sensitized population on epilepsy (p=0.028), and having already prescribed anti-epileptics drugs (p=0.007). Regarding organization and management of health-services for epilepsy cases, our study shows that health-workers were underinformed, untrained and unprepared for epilepsy case management. Health-care services environment was not supportive and not enabled. It is crucial to strengthen the capacity of healthworkers and to improve the health facility environment to become friendly with epilepsy-management.

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Knowledge about and attitude towards epilepsy among Menit Community, Southwest Ethiopia

Cited by 34 publications

References 16 publications

Public knowledge and attitude towards epilepsy and its associated factors in Debre Berhan, North Shoa, Amhara Region, Ethiopia, 2018/19. Community-based cross-sectional study

Public knowledge and attitude towards epilepsy and its associated factors in Debre Berhan, North Shoa, Amhara Region, Ethiopia, 2018/19. Community-based cross-sectional study

Epilepsy in Child, Particularities Related to Evolution and Prognosis – A Case Report and a Review of the Literature

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