Uma, Govindaraj and Manjula, Dhandapani (2022) Knowledge gap exists among caregivers of adults compared to caregivers of children with epilepsy: A comparative analysis from a low resource setting. Epilepsy & Behavior Reports. ISSN 2589-9864

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Abstract

Caregivers of adults (CG-A) and caregivers of children (CG-C) may differ in their knowledge, attitude and
behavior and hence their education requirements during epilepsy counseling could vary. This study compares the current knowledge, attitudes, behavior during a seizure, presence of myths surrounding epilepsy and ability to recognize seizures among a sample of CG-A and CG-C. Caregivers of children and
adult patients with minimum 6 months history of epilepsy were enrolled. Information was collected
using a questionnaire about clinical and demographic details and five domains (KAP-plus); knowledge,
attitude, behavior, presence of myths and a video data for identification of focal impaired awareness
seizures (FIAS) and generalized tonic-clonic seizures (GTCS). There were 132 CG-A and 127 CG-C. CG-C
were younger and better educated compared to CG-A (formal education of 64.6% vs 44.7% p = 0.001).
CG-A and CG-C were comparable in the knowledge and attitude domains. CG-A scored less than CG-C
in the domains of behavior (15.5 vs 16.8 p = <0.001), myths (15.4 vs 16.2 p = 0.002), video recognition
of FIAS and GTCS (0.7 vs 0.94 p = 0.001) and KAP-plus score (22.9 vs 24.6 p = 0.017). The knowledgebehavior or knowing-doing gap, knowledge-faith gap and knowledge-recognition gaps existed more
among CG-A compared to CG-C. Focused education strategies are required to bridge the gap among
CG-A.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Caregivers of epilepsy Knowledge of epilepsy First-aid of seizures Myths about epilepsy Seizure recognition Knowledge gap in epilepsy
Divisions: PSG College of Arts and Science > Department of Statistics
Depositing User: Mr Team Mosys
Date Deposited: 14 Mar 2023 09:45
Last Modified: 14 Mar 2023 09:45
URI: http://ir.psgcas.ac.in/id/eprint/1774

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