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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研讨会对医学生癫痫信息获取和态度的影响

目的 本研究的目的是调查以癫痫的医学和社会方面为重点的简短研讨会对医学院学生对癫痫的信息获取和态度的影响。方法 这项前后测研究的样本由 57 名五年级医学生组成。学生们参加了一个一小时的研讨会，内容包括癫痫的医学和社会方面。由研究人员开发的癫痫相关意识表格以及癫痫态度量表在研讨会之前和之后应用于参与者。结果 确定一半的学生 (50.9%) 遇到癫痫发作，其中 12.3% 的学生应用了急救。学生在接受教育前难以描述癫痫发作类型。在接受教育之前，描述癫痫发作的比率为 47。4% 的肌阵挛发作、50.9% 的简单部分发作和 64.9% 的失神发作，并且在教育之后，这些比率增加到 82.5% (p < 0.001)、91.2% (p < 0.001) 和 98.2% (p < 0.001) 0.001)，分别。学生们普遍很好地描述了癫痫发作的触发因素；然而，将月经期作为触发因素的学生比例较低（66.7%），教育后比例增加（93.0%）（p = 0.001）。对于癫痫急救问题，正确答案的百分比也有所增加。接受教育后，认为有能力进行癫痫发作急救管理的学生百分比从 12.3% 增加到 91.2% (p < 0.001)。学生对癫痫社会方面的正确反应率普遍较高。在我们的研究中，还评估了对癫痫的态度。教育后，发现学生的态度得分略有增加（p = 0.009）。尽管数量很少，但对于态度量表的每个项目，表现出更积极态度的学生数量有所增加。结论 虽然在某些领域发现缺乏熟人，但我们样本中对癫痫的认识处于中等水平。本研究表明，对学生的教育对信息获取和态度有积极影响。