Murthy Meena Kolar Sridara, Govindappa Lakshmana, Marimuthu P, Dasgupta Madhuporna
Department of Mental Health Education, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Department of Social Work, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Central University of Karnataka, Kalaburagi, Karnataka, India.
J Educ Health Promot. 2019 Jun 27;8:122. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_435_18. eCollection 2019.
The condition of epilepsy has a considerable effect on a person's social and personal life. Currently, a knowledge gap exists regarding the knowledge, attitude, and perception towards epilepsy among graduate students. The objectives of the study were to initially explore the knowledge, attitude, practices and to examine their inter-relationship among graduate students.
A total of 300 3 year Bachelor of Science graduate students from colleges near Hombegowda nagar, Bangalore, Karnataka were included from three colleges. To achieve the objective mentioned, an instrument was framed and approved by specialists in the field.
About 26% believed that epilepsy is a mental illness, 64% reported that it is not a disease of the brain, 96% believed it to be a hereditary disease. Attitude shows that 29%, 33%, and 49% believed that Epilepsy can disturb anybody's normal life, education, and occupation, respectively. About 31% reported that if they see a person with epileptic attack they ran away. Knowledge score have significantly ( < 0.001) positive correlation of = 0.810 and = 0.794 with both attitude and practice, respectively. Attitude and practice also have significantly ( < 0.001) positive correlation (0.856) with practice. This clearly shows that if knowledge increases, persons will have positive attitude and good practices whereas less knowledge leads to faulty attitude and practices.
There is a need to include health education programs for school children and college students irrespective of streams, as it is crucial to bring an alteration in the presently observed perspective, behavior, and practice.
癫痫病症对一个人的社交和个人生活有相当大的影响。目前，研究生对癫痫的知识、态度和认知方面存在知识差距。本研究的目的是初步探索研究生对癫痫的知识、态度、行为，并检验它们之间的相互关系。
从卡纳塔克邦班加罗尔洪贝戈达纳加尔附近三所学院选取了300名三年制理学学士研究生。为实现上述目标，设计了一份调查问卷并经该领域专家批准。
约26%的人认为癫痫是一种精神疾病，64%的人表示它不是脑部疾病，96%的人认为它是一种遗传性疾病。态度方面，分别有29%、33%和49%的人认为癫痫会干扰任何人的正常生活、教育和职业。约31%的人报告说，如果他们看到有人癫痫发作，他们会跑开。知识得分与态度和行为分别有显著的（<0.001）正相关，相关系数分别为0.810和0.794。态度和行为之间也有显著的（<0.001）正相关（0.856）。这清楚地表明，如果知识增加，人们会有积极的态度和良好的行为，而知识较少则会导致错误的态度和行为。
有必要为中小学生和大学生开展健康教育项目，无论其专业方向如何，因为改变目前观察到的观念、行为和做法至关重要。
