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Parental Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practice toward their Epileptic Children, Baghdad, Iraq 2022
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Background: Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders. People who know less about epilepsy tend to have negative ideas about the disease. KAP of parents on epilepsy is crucial, especially to children below 13, as the child in this stage mostly depends on parents to get the answers to their concerns. Still, the over-protection from their families will create insecurity and reduce their self-esteem when they grow older.

Objectives: To assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) and measure their association with sociodemographic characteristics.

Methods: A cross-sectional study involved 107 parents with children who were diagnosed and received treatment for epilepsy. This study was conducted in the consultation clinics in the Children Welfare Teaching Hospital, Medical City in Baghdad-Iraq, from January through July 2022. A questionnaire was developed and filled out through direct interviews with the participants. The questionnaire was composed of five parts. The first part included primary sociodemographic data. The second part concerns the particular child’s basic characteristics and epilepsy history. The third part concerns the parents' knowledge about child epilepsy. The fourth part concerns parents' attitudes toward children with epilepsy. The fifth part is concerned with the practice of parents toward child epilepsy.

Results: Good knowledge, attitude, and practices were seen among 61 (57.0%), 70 (65.4%), and 90 (84.1%) parents, respectively. Good parents’ knowledge of epilepsy was significantly associated with higher education (college) and with fewer family Members (<5) (P<0.001 and P=0.0002), respectively. In addition, a good parents’ attitude towards epilepsy was significantly associated with higher education (college) (P=0.015).

Conclusion: About half of the parents have good knowledge, two third have a good attitude, and most have good practices towards epilepsy.

Received: April. 2023

Accepted: Jul. 2023

Published: Jan 2024

 

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Publication Date
Fri Sep 30 2022
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Iraqi Journal Of Science
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Sun Sep 26 2021
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Journal Of The Faculty Of Medicine Baghdad
Vitamin D level and telogen hair loss: A Case control study
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Background: Hair loss is a common skin condition. Hair is not a vital organ but losing it has a worse effect on the psychological state of the patient and may interrupt his daily social activities. Telogen effluvium founded to be the commonest noninflammatory cause to diffuse hair loss. Since nutritional disturbances are one of the triggering factors for it. It might be useful in the management of TE Due to the limited number of studies& little information is available on this subject possible role of vitamin D or its deficiency should be studied further.

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Wed Dec 01 2021
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Iraqi Journal Of Physics
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Sun Oct 03 2010
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Iron Deficiency Anaemia and Beta Thalassaemia Trait in Anaemic Pregnant Women.
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