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- - The study assessed how a one-hour seminar on the medical and social aspects of epilepsy impacted medical students' knowledge and attitudes towards the condition.
- - Results showed that students significantly improved their ability to identify seizure types and felt much more confident in providing first aid for seizures after the seminar.
- - While students had a generally positive attitude towards epilepsy, the seminar led to a slight increase in their attitude scores, indicating improved perceptions toward the disorder.
Article Abstract
Aim: The aim of the present study was to investigate 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.
Method: The sample of this pretest-posttest study consisted of 57 fifth-grade medical students. The students participated in a one-hour seminar including medical and social aspects of epilepsy. An epilepsy-related awareness form developed by researchers and also the Epilepsy Attitude Scale were applied to the participants before and after the seminar.
Results: It was determined that half of the students (50.9%) encountered an epileptic seizure and 12.3% of them applied first aid. The students had difficulty in describing the seizure type before education. Before education, the rate of describing the seizure was 47.4% for myoclonic seizure, 50.9% for simple partial seizure, and 64.9% for absence seizure, and after education, these rates increased to 82.5% (p < 0.001), 91.2% (p < 0.001), and 98.2% (p < 0.001), respectively. Students generally well described the seizure triggering factors; however, the rate of students reporting the menstrual period as triggering factors were lower (66.7%), and the rates increased after the education (93.0%) (p = 0.001). The percentages of correct answers increased also for the questions regarding seizure first aid. The percentage of students who felt competent for seizure first-aid management increased from 12.3% to 91.2% (p < 0.001) after the education. The correct response rates of students for social aspects of epilepsy was generally high. In our study, attitude toward epilepsy was also evaluated. After the education, a mild increase in the attitude score of students was found (p = 0.009). Although it is minimal, the number of students who marked more positive attitude increased for each item of the Attitude scale.
Conclusion: Although a lack of acquaintance was found in some areas, awareness of epilepsy in our sample was at a moderate level. This study showed a positive effect of the education given to students on information acquisition and attitude.
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