Kartal Ayşe, Akyıldız Abdülbaki
Department of Child Neurology, Selçuk University Faculty of Medicine, Turkey.
Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Süleyman Demirel University Faculty of Medicine, Turkey.
Epilepsy Behav. 2016 Jun;59:137-41. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2016.02.006. Epub 2016 May 2.
This study aimed to determine the familiarity with, knowledge of, misunderstandings, and attitudes toward epilepsy among a group of Turkish adults living in Konya, an urban city in central Turkey.
By using an established familiarity-knowledge-attitudes practice questionnaire, 500 randomly selected adult residents of Konya were interviewed face-to-face. Demographic and sociocultural factors that predicted negative attitudes were determined.
More than half of all participants (68.4%) reported hearing or reading about epilepsy, 44% knew someone with epilepsy, and 42.2% had witnessed a seizure. The primary source of knowledge was via relatives and friends; Negative attitudes were about marriage and inability to live alone with epilepsy (63.2% objected to marriage and 84% objected to living alone). A preconception of epilepsy being a dangerous and lifelong disease was the primary reason for negative attitudes. Predictors of negative attitudes were female gender, lower educational status, and living in a rural area.
Negative attitudes regarding the marital status of patients with epilepsy still exist. These may stem from misconceptions about the cause and treatability of epilepsy.
本研究旨在确定生活在土耳其中部城市科尼亚的一群土耳其成年人对癫痫的熟悉程度、了解程度、误解及态度。
通过使用一份既定的熟悉程度 - 知识 - 态度实践调查问卷，对500名随机挑选的科尼亚成年居民进行面对面访谈。确定预测负面态度的人口统计学和社会文化因素。
超过一半的参与者（68.4%）报告听说或阅读过有关癫痫的内容，44%认识癫痫患者，42.2%目睹过癫痫发作。知识的主要来源是亲戚和朋友；负面态度涉及癫痫患者的婚姻和无法独自生活（63.2%反对癫痫患者结婚，84%反对癫痫患者独自生活）。认为癫痫是一种危险的终身疾病的先入之见是产生负面态度的主要原因。负面态度的预测因素是女性、教育程度较低以及居住在农村地区。
对癫痫患者婚姻状况的负面态度仍然存在。这些可能源于对癫痫病因和可治疗性的误解。
