[The attitude toward persons with epilepsy].

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.