Employers' attitudes to employment of people with epilepsy: still the same old story?

Purpose: One area of life quality known to be compromised by having epilepsy is employment, and one factor contributing to the employment problems of people with epilepsy (PWE) is employer attitudes. Much research on this topic is now outdated and given the changing legal, medical, and social contexts in which PWE live, we therefore reexamined employer attitudes in the United Kingdom.

Method: A mail survey of a random sample of U.

Quality of life of people with epilepsy in Iran, the Gulf, and Near East.

Purpose: To study the impact of epilepsy and its treatment on the quality of life of people living in Iran and in countries in the Gulf and Near East.

Methods: Clinical, demographic, and psychosocial details were collected through the use of a self-completed questionnaire distributed to patients attending hospital outpatient clinics.

Results: Data were collected from 3,889 people with epilepsy from 10 countries.

Public knowledge, private grief: a study of public attitudes to epilepsy in the United Kingdom and implications for stigma.

Purpose: For many people with epilepsy, the continuing social reality of their condition is as a stigma, thus representing a source of much private grief. To understand fully the nature of epilepsy stigma, it is important to examine attitudes and beliefs of not just the "targets" but also of the "perceivers" of stigma. Perceivers may hold erroneous beliefs and stereotypes that lead them to have negative expectations of people affected by epilepsy.