Department of Psychology, Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey.
Epilepsy Behav. 2011 Feb;20(2):286-90. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2010.09.030. Epub 2011 Jan 28.
The aims of the study described here were to investigate familiarity with, knowledge of, and attitudes toward epilepsy and to assess indicators of positive attitudes toward epilepsy. Questionnaires previously developed for the Turkish population were used to assess knowledge and attitudes. Data were collected from 1354 randomly selected adults. Three-quarters of the sample had heard something about epilepsy, and almost half of the sample personally knew someone with epilepsy. The sample had a moderate level of knowledge of and favorable attitudes toward epilepsy in general. Variables that predicted positive attitudes were young age, male gender, and high level of knowledge of epilepsy. The results for both knowledge and attitudes indicate that the findings of the study are largely in line with previous studies, but where there is wide variability among previous findings, the findings for the Turkish population lie, just as Turkey does geographically, between those of the East and West.
本研究旨在调查人们对癫痫的熟悉程度、了解程度和态度，并评估对癫痫的积极态度的指标。我们使用了先前为土耳其人群开发的问卷来评估知识和态度。数据来自 1354 名随机选择的成年人。四分之三的样本听说过癫痫，近一半的样本认识患有癫痫的人。该样本对癫痫有一定的了解，总体上对癫痫持积极态度。预测积极态度的变量是年轻、男性和对癫痫的高度了解。知识和态度的结果表明，研究结果与先前的研究基本一致，但在先前研究结果存在广泛差异的情况下，土耳其人群的研究结果与地理上处于东西方之间的土耳其的情况一致。
