1. Assessment of knowledge about epilepsy and attitude toward epilepsy among nurses in hospitals affiliated to Babol University of Medical Sciences
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Payam Saadat, Alijan Ahmadi Ahangar, Hemmat Gholinya, and Masoud Pour Abbas
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education ,knowledge ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,lcsh:R ,lcsh:Medicine ,medicine.disease ,lcsh:RC346-429 ,Epilepsy ,age ,Neurology ,attitude ,Family medicine ,medicine ,epilepsy ,Neurology (clinical) ,business ,lcsh:Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system - Abstract
Background. The aim of this study was to determine the knowledge and attitude of nurses of hospitals affiliated to Babol University of medical sciences with regard to epilepsy and its related factors. Method. This descriptive study was performed on 500 nurses working at educational hospitals of Babol, Iran, in 2017. A questionnaire including 7 demographic questions, 14 questions of knowledge and 10 questions of attitude was used to collect the related data. Results were gained through ANOVA and T-test. Results. In this study, the level of knowledge about epilepsy was significantly higher in subjects younger than 25 years old (P = 0.03), but the attitude toward epilepsy across different age groups was not significantly different. Also, there was no significant difference between knowledge and attitude between the two sexes, marital status and work experience. Nurses’ knowledge was not significant in terms of education, but their attitude toward epilepsy was higher in those with undergraduate education than those with higher educated (P
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- 2019