Thapa Lekhjung, Bhandari Tirtha Raj, Shrestha Shakti, Poudel Ramesh Sharma
Department of Neurology, National Institute of Neurological and Allied Sciences, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Department of General Medicine, Primary Health Centre, Jutpani, Chitwan, Nepal.
Epilepsy Res Treat. 2017;2017:6705807. doi: 10.1155/2017/6705807. Epub 2017 Feb 12.
. Epilepsy continues to increase worldwide but, unfortunately, many high school students have inadequate knowledge of and negative beliefs towards the disease. We aimed to assess the knowledge, beliefs, and practices of epilepsy among high school students of Central Nepal. . A cross-sectional study was performed involving 1360 high school students from 33 private schools across Bharatpur, from June 2013 to July 2013, to assess their knowledge, beliefs, and practices (KBP) on epilepsy using a standardized questionnaire. The differences in mean KBP scores between different sexes, religions, and those personally knowing versus not knowing someone with epilepsy were assessed using independent -tests; a Pearson correlation was calculated to assess the relationship between KBP scores and age. . Of 1360 participants, 79 (5.8%) students had never heard or read about epilepsy and were consequently excluded from statistical analysis. Only 261 out of 1360 (19.2%) had personally known someone with epilepsy. The mean KBP scores were 5.0/8, 7.4/12, and 1.7/3, respectively. Statistically significant differences were only observed in the knowledge component of the KBP score; female scored higher than males ( < 0.001) and, interestingly, students who had personally known a person with epilepsy actually knew less than those who had not known one ( = 0.018). We also found a significant negative correlation between knowledge and age ( = 0.003). . The overall knowledge, beliefs, and practices appear to be inadequate, emphasizing the need for further educational intervention.
癫痫在全球范围内持续增多，但遗憾的是，许多高中生对该疾病了解不足且抱有负面看法。我们旨在评估尼泊尔中部高中生对癫痫的知识、看法及行为。
2013年6月至2013年7月，在巴拉特普尔的33所私立学校对1360名高中生开展了一项横断面研究，使用标准化问卷评估他们对癫痫的知识、看法及行为（KBP）。采用独立样本t检验评估不同性别、宗教以及个人是否认识癫痫患者之间KBP平均得分的差异；计算Pearson相关性以评估KBP得分与年龄之间的关系。
在1360名参与者中，79名（5.8%）学生从未听说或读过有关癫痫的内容，因此被排除在统计分析之外。1360名学生中只有261名（19.2%）个人认识癫痫患者。KBP得分的平均值分别为5.0/8、7.4/12和1.7/3。仅在KBP得分的知识部分观察到统计学上的显著差异；女生得分高于男生（P<0.001），有趣的是，认识癫痫患者的学生实际了解的情况比不认识的学生更少（P = 0.018）。我们还发现知识与年龄之间存在显著的负相关（P = 0.003）。
总体而言，知识、看法及行为似乎都不足，这凸显了进一步开展教育干预的必要性。
