A questionnaire study on knowledge of and attitudes toward epilepsy in schoolchildren and university students in Rome, Italy.

Purpose: To estimate the knowledge of and attitudes toward epilepsy in schoolchildren and university students in Rome.

Methods: We administered a custom-designed questionnaire in Italian on general knowledge, specific knowledge and social impact of epilepsy to a random sample of upper-middle class pupils and university undergraduate students in Rome.

Results: The young people we studied have a reasonable knowledge of epilepsy: as many as 91% claimed to know something about the disease.