Parental knowledge and attitudes towards epilepsy –A study from Jordan

•Parents failed to know the etiologies of epilepsy.•Parents are not using the key word epilepsy” in their search.•Better parental knowledge correlated with higher parental education level.•Positive attitudes correlated with higher parental income and education level.•Positive attitudes correlated wi...

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Published in:Seizure (London, England) England), 2017-12, Vol.53, p.75-80
Main Authors: Masri, Amira, Aburahma, Samah, Khasawneh, Aisha, AL Qudah, Abdelkarim, Nafi, Omar, Al Momani, Miral, Khatib, Faisal
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Attitude
Behavior
Child
Child, Preschool
Children
Cross-Sectional Studies
Educational Status
Epilepsy
Epilepsy - ethnology
Female
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice - ethnology
Humans
Income
Infant
Jordan
Jordan - ethnology
Knowledge
Male
Parents
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Summary:•Parents failed to know the etiologies of epilepsy.•Parents are not using the key word epilepsy” in their search.•Better parental knowledge correlated with higher parental education level.•Positive attitudes correlated with higher parental income and education level.•Positive attitudes correlated with absence of associated co morbidities. To explore the knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of parents whose children were diagnosed with epilepsy. Cross-sectional questionnaire based study of parents who accompanied their children with epilepsy to the child neurology clinics at three university hospitals in Jordan. Most parents (427, 90.3%) knew that epilepsy is not related to a psychiatric disease. Approximately half of the parents (245, 51.8%) used the internet as their source of knowledge, and most used Arabic websites. Searching the word epilepsy was rarely used (51, 10.8%). Most of the parents (428,90.5%) were not restricting their children from watching TV or from using the computer (358,75.5%).However, many parents (280,59.2%) were restricting them from participating in sports. Parents had negative attitudes towards epilepsy; 189 (40.0%)thought that epileptic children can have normal intelligence, and 292 (61.7%) thought that they can continue into higher education. Greater parental knowledge of epilepsy was found to be correlated with the parental education level (p
ISSN:1059-1311
1532-2688
DOI:10.1016/j.seizure.2017.11.006