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Knowledge and Attitudes towards Epilepsy of Croatian General Student Population and Biomedical Students: A Cross-Sectional Study

Epilepsy causes a significant burden to patients as it is linked with various somatic and psychiatric comorbidities, social issues, impaired quality of life, and increased mortality. Improving the population’s knowledge and attitudes about epilepsy patients could be beneficial as it could raise soci...

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Autores principales: Žuvela, Tomislav, Filipović-Grčić, Branka, Rušić, Doris, Leskur, Dario, Modun, Darko, Čohadžić, Tin, Bukić, Josipa, Šešelja Perišin, Ana
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10531231/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37761747
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11182550
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author Žuvela, Tomislav
Filipović-Grčić, Branka
Rušić, Doris
Leskur, Dario
Modun, Darko
Čohadžić, Tin
Bukić, Josipa
Šešelja Perišin, Ana
author_facet Žuvela, Tomislav
Filipović-Grčić, Branka
Rušić, Doris
Leskur, Dario
Modun, Darko
Čohadžić, Tin
Bukić, Josipa
Šešelja Perišin, Ana
author_sort Žuvela, Tomislav
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description Epilepsy causes a significant burden to patients as it is linked with various somatic and psychiatric comorbidities, social issues, impaired quality of life, and increased mortality. Improving the population’s knowledge and attitudes about epilepsy patients could be beneficial as it could raise social awareness and lead to more social support for patients. For those reasons, a survey-based cross-sectional study was conducted to determine Croatian students’ knowledge and attitudes toward epilepsy. A previously developed survey questionnaire was adapted for the Croatian setting and distributed online to the students (n = 544). Croatian students generally had positive attitudes towards people with epilepsy (median score 28.0, interquartile range 29.0–26.0, with the minimum possible score being 0.0 and the maximum 30.0), with the female gender (B (male) = 0.664 (95% CI −1.158, −0.170), p = 0.009), biomedical education (B (other) = −0.442, (95% CI −0.823, −0.061), p = 0.023), and personal experience in the form of witnessing the seizure (B = 0.519 (95% CI 0,098, 0.940), p = 0.016) as predictors of more favorable attitudes. Overall knowledge was satisfactory concerning most items, with the exception of first aid measures and risk factors. Educational intervention targeting bio-medical students and other students who might, in their future professional lives, be responsible for people suffering from epilepsy is needed to improve the gaps in their knowledge.
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spelling pubmed-105312312023-09-28 Knowledge and Attitudes towards Epilepsy of Croatian General Student Population and Biomedical Students: A Cross-Sectional Study Žuvela, Tomislav Filipović-Grčić, Branka Rušić, Doris Leskur, Dario Modun, Darko Čohadžić, Tin Bukić, Josipa Šešelja Perišin, Ana Healthcare (Basel) Article Epilepsy causes a significant burden to patients as it is linked with various somatic and psychiatric comorbidities, social issues, impaired quality of life, and increased mortality. Improving the population’s knowledge and attitudes about epilepsy patients could be beneficial as it could raise social awareness and lead to more social support for patients. For those reasons, a survey-based cross-sectional study was conducted to determine Croatian students’ knowledge and attitudes toward epilepsy. A previously developed survey questionnaire was adapted for the Croatian setting and distributed online to the students (n = 544). Croatian students generally had positive attitudes towards people with epilepsy (median score 28.0, interquartile range 29.0–26.0, with the minimum possible score being 0.0 and the maximum 30.0), with the female gender (B (male) = 0.664 (95% CI −1.158, −0.170), p = 0.009), biomedical education (B (other) = −0.442, (95% CI −0.823, −0.061), p = 0.023), and personal experience in the form of witnessing the seizure (B = 0.519 (95% CI 0,098, 0.940), p = 0.016) as predictors of more favorable attitudes. Overall knowledge was satisfactory concerning most items, with the exception of first aid measures and risk factors. Educational intervention targeting bio-medical students and other students who might, in their future professional lives, be responsible for people suffering from epilepsy is needed to improve the gaps in their knowledge. MDPI 2023-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10531231/ /pubmed/37761747 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11182550 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Žuvela, Tomislav
Filipović-Grčić, Branka
Rušić, Doris
Leskur, Dario
Modun, Darko
Čohadžić, Tin
Bukić, Josipa
Šešelja Perišin, Ana
Knowledge and Attitudes towards Epilepsy of Croatian General Student Population and Biomedical Students: A Cross-Sectional Study
title Knowledge and Attitudes towards Epilepsy of Croatian General Student Population and Biomedical Students: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full Knowledge and Attitudes towards Epilepsy of Croatian General Student Population and Biomedical Students: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_fullStr Knowledge and Attitudes towards Epilepsy of Croatian General Student Population and Biomedical Students: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge and Attitudes towards Epilepsy of Croatian General Student Population and Biomedical Students: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_short Knowledge and Attitudes towards Epilepsy of Croatian General Student Population and Biomedical Students: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_sort knowledge and attitudes towards epilepsy of croatian general student population and biomedical students: a cross-sectional study
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10531231/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37761747
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11182550
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