Ondokuz Mayıs University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Samsun, Turkey.
Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Istanbul, Turkey.
Epilepsy Behav. 2021 Mar;116:107720. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2020.107720. Epub 2021 Jan 21.
The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of a brief seminar focusing on medical and social aspects of epilepsy on information acquisition of and attitudes toward epilepsy among medical school students.
The sample of this pretest-posttest study consisted of 57 fifth-grade medical students. The students participated in a one-hour seminar including medical and social aspects of epilepsy. An epilepsy-related awareness form developed by researchers and also the Epilepsy Attitude Scale were applied to the participants before and after the seminar.
It was determined that half of the students (50.9%) encountered an epileptic seizure and 12.3% of them applied first aid. The students had difficulty in describing the seizure type before education. Before education, the rate of describing the seizure was 47.4% for myoclonic seizure, 50.9% for simple partial seizure, and 64.9% for absence seizure, and after education, these rates increased to 82.5% (p < 0.001), 91.2% (p < 0.001), and 98.2% (p < 0.001), respectively. Students generally well described the seizure triggering factors; however, the rate of students reporting the menstrual period as triggering factors were lower (66.7%), and the rates increased after the education (93.0%) (p = 0.001). The percentages of correct answers increased also for the questions regarding seizure first aid. The percentage of students who felt competent for seizure first-aid management increased from 12.3% to 91.2% (p < 0.001) after the education. The correct response rates of students for social aspects of epilepsy was generally high. In our study, attitude toward epilepsy was also evaluated. After the education, a mild increase in the attitude score of students was found (p = 0.009). Although it is minimal, the number of students who marked more positive attitude increased for each item of the Attitude scale.
Although a lack of acquaintance was found in some areas, awareness of epilepsy in our sample was at a moderate level. This study showed a positive effect of the education given to students on information acquisition and attitude.
本研究旨在探讨聚焦于癫痫的医学和社会方面的简短研讨会对医学生癫痫相关信息获取和态度的影响。
本研究采用前后测试设计，研究对象为 57 名五年级医学生。学生们参加了一个时长为 1 小时的研讨会，内容涵盖癫痫的医学和社会方面。研究人员设计了一份与癫痫相关的意识问卷和癫痫态度量表，在研讨会前后对参与者进行了调查。
研究发现，一半的学生（50.9%）曾目睹过癫痫发作，其中 12.3%的学生曾进行过急救。在教育之前，学生们难以描述发作类型。在教育之前，描述肌阵挛发作、简单部分性发作和失神发作的比例分别为 47.4%、50.9%和 64.9%，而在教育之后，这些比例分别增加到 82.5%（p<0.001）、91.2%（p<0.001）和 98.2%（p<0.001）。学生们普遍能够较好地描述发作的诱发因素，但报告月经周期为诱发因素的学生比例较低（66.7%），且这一比例在教育后有所上升（93.0%）（p=0.001）。对于癫痫急救的相关问题，学生的正确答案比例也有所增加。感到有能力进行癫痫急救管理的学生比例从 12.3%增加到 91.2%（p<0.001）。学生对癫痫社会方面的正确反应率通常较高。在我们的研究中，还评估了学生对癫痫的态度。教育后，学生的态度评分略有上升（p=0.009）。尽管幅度较小，但每个态度量表项目中标记更积极态度的学生人数都有所增加。
尽管在某些方面存在认知不足，但我们的研究对象对癫痫的认识处于中等水平。本研究表明，向学生提供的教育对其信息获取和态度产生了积极影响。
