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Knowledge about epilepsy in university health students: A multicenter study.

Priscila S. Souza, +7 more
- 01 Feb 2018 - 
- Vol. 79, pp 112-116
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General knowledge of senior health students about epilepsy was considered low, however, regarding the medical aspects of the disease, students from Brazil and Portugal exhibited a slightly superior knowledge.
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This article is published in Epilepsy & Behavior.The article was published on 2018-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 9 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Population & Health care.

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Evaluation of knowledge about epilepsy and attitudes towards patients with epilepsy among university students in Upper Egypt.

Mohamed N. Thabit, +2 more
- 01 Aug 2018 - 
TL;DR: Knowledge about epilepsy is insufficient and should be increased and the attitudes towards patients with epilepsy are negative and should been changed in Upper Egypt.
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Who is the bigger stigmatizor?: The loved one or the society.

Zerrin Yıldırım, +3 more
- 08 May 2019 - 
TL;DR: The stigmatization levels in a group of subjects drawn from general population without acquaintance of epilepsy were lower than the relatives of the patients, and this result may be partially explained by the ambivalent attitudes of the relatives.
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The effect of a seminar on medical students' information acquisition of and attitudes toward epilepsy.

Kubra Yeni, +6 more
- 20 Jan 2021 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated 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, and found that half of the students encountered an epileptic seizure and 12.3% of them applied first aid.
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Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of physiotherapists with regard to epilepsy and patients with epilepsy: A systematic scoping review.

Mosab Amoudi, +2 more
- 27 Oct 2021 - 
TL;DR: A systematic scoping review of qualitative evidence on knowledge, attitudes, and practices of physiotherapists toward epilepsy and patients with epilepsy was presented in this article, where a total of 11 studies were published in the period between 2016 and 2020, with acceptable methodological quality in many of the 11 domains of the quality assessment tool.
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Evaluation of nursing students’ health fatalism, knowledge, and attitudes toward patients with epilepsy

Nicole Pecquex
- 01 Feb 2022 - 
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors conducted a study to determine the relationship between nursing students' health fatalism, epilepsy knowledge, attitudes, and some sociodemographic variables, and found that students' positive attitudes toward epilepsy increased as their levels of knowledge about the disorder increased.
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Stigma, epilepsy, and quality of life.

Ann Jacoby
- 01 Dec 2002 - 
TL;DR: Neither informal stigma nor formal discrimination is inevitable for epilepsy patients; however, for many individuals, epilepsy remains a defining feature of their identity, and such issues are a source of considerable concern for a number of patients.
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Cross-cultural differences in levels of knowledge about epilepsy.

Julie Doughty, +3 more
- 01 Jan 2003 - 
TL;DR: To study how much people with epilepsy in Europe know and understand about their condition and how this might affect their lives, a large number of them have had treatment in the past.
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An epilepsy questionnaire study of knowledge and attitudes in Canadian college students.

G. Bryan Young, +6 more
- 01 Jun 2002 - 
TL;DR: A survey was conducted to examine knowledge and attitudes, to note gender and occupational influences, and to examine the effect of an informational brochure on the relation of societal knowledge and attitude regarding epilepsy.

Knowledge, attitude and beliefs about epilepsy among adults in a northern nigerian urban community

M Kabir, +4 more
TL;DR: The low level of knowledge and misconceptions demonstrates the need for community educational programmes aimed at demystifying epilepsy with a view to allaying fears and mistrust about the disease as well as lessen stigmatization toward epileptics.
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Awareness and knowledge of epilepsy among students in a Malaysian university

Ab Fatah Ab Rahman
- 01 Dec 2005 - 
TL;DR: There is a generally favorable level of awareness and knowledge of epilepsy among students at the university, Nevertheless, there is still a need to improve certain aspects of knowledge and understanding among university students.
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Q1. What have the authors contributed in "Knowledge about epilepsy in university health students: a multicenter study" ?

The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the knowledge about epilepsy in health students from different countries: Brazil, Argentina, Portugal, United States and South Africa.