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Yasemin Şahin Yıldız1, Elçin Sebahat Kasapoğlu2, Hanifi Dülger3
1Department of Home Patient Care, Vocational College of Health Services, University of Bartın, Bartın, Turkey.
Aim:
This study was conducted to examine the knowledge and attitudes that students in the field of healthcare services have about epilepsy.
Method:
This cross-sectional and descriptive study was conducted with 312 students of the Department of Health Care Services (home patient and elderly care) in Turkey. The data were collected using a sociodemographic information form, the Epilepsy Knowledge Level Scale, and the Attitudes Towards Epilepsy Scale. Descriptive statistics, the Shapiro-Wilk test, the Mann-Whitney U test, the Kruskal-Wallis H test and the Spearman correlation test were used to analyze the data. Significance was considered as p < 0.05.
Results:
Students in the field of healthcare services constituted the sample of the study, and more than half of the students (68.3%) were female. The mean scores obtained from the Epilepsy Knowledge Scale and the Epilepsy Attitude Scale were 8.38 ± 4.29 and 60.02 ± 7.28 respectively. A positive and significant relationship was found between the students' knowledge and attitude scores about epilepsy (p < 0.01). It was found that students' attitudes toward epilepsy positively increased as their knowledge increased. It was observed that female students who received education about epilepsy, witnessed seizures, and had relatives with epilepsy had more positive attitudes toward epilepsy.
Conclusion:
In this study, it was found that the student participants had a moderate level of knowledge about epilepsy and exhibited a positive attitude toward epilepsy. It was determined that the students' attitudes toward epilepsy positively increased as their level of knowledge about epilepsy increased.
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