Survey of public awareness, understanding, and attitudes toward epilepsy in Henan province, China.

Abstract:

:The awareness, understanding, and attitudes toward epilepsy in 1,278 men and women were surveyed in Henan, China in 1988. Results showed that 93% had read or heard about epilepsy; 77% knew someone who had epilepsy; 72% had seen someone who was having a seizure; 57% would object to having their children associate with persons with epilepsy in school or at play; 87% would object to having their children marry a person with epilepsy; 53% believed that epileptic persons should not be employed in jobs as other persons are; 16% believed that epilepsy was a form of insanity; 40% did not know the cause of epilepsy; 10% did not know what an epileptic attack was like; and 17% did not know what to recommend if their friends or relatives had epilepsy. The relationship between the responses and the respondents' age, sex, marital status, number of offspring, level of education, occupation, and residence was analyzed. Education reduced the respondent's prejudice against play and employment, but did not change their objection to marriage and appeared to have reinforced their linking epilepsy with insanity. As compared with the surveys conducted in Western countries, our survey showed that awareness of epilepsy in China was greater, if not the same, but the attitudes toward epilepsy were much more negative.

journal_name

Epilepsia

journal_title

Epilepsia

authors

Lai CW,Huang XS,Lai YH,Zhang ZQ,Liu GJ,Yang MZ

doi

10.1111/j.1528-1167.1990.tb06304.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1990-03-01 00:00:00

pages

182-7

issue

2

eissn

0013-9580

issn

1528-1167

journal_volume

31

pub_type

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