Knowledge of Primary School’s Teachers about Epilepsy in AlBasra City Center

Abstract

Background: Epilepsy is a common disorder that, even for those individuals who frequently work withepileptics, is inefficiently understood. Low comprehension and understanding of the cause for the disorderhas been connected with negative attitudes and beliefs, and misconceptions of workplace and schoolepileptics.Objective: To evaluate the knowledge of epilepsy among primary school’s teachers. And to determine therelationship between primary school teachers’ knowledge of epilepsy and their socio-demographic featuresof age, gender, relative’s history, and family history.Methodology: A cross-sectional descriptive study to evaluate the knowledge of epilepsy among 130 primaryschool’s teachers in the center city of Basra, from February 2020 to July 2020. A probability Simple randomsample was done to choice the school’s teachers in the schools.Results: A total of (130) participants gender is approximate; (n=111; 85.4%) for female, and (n=19; 14.6%)for male, their age group less than half of them is within (40-49) years-old (n=42; 32.3%). The resultsreveals that the majority of participant has a moderate knowledge regarding epilepsy (n=94; 72.3%).Conclusion: According to results of the current study, the researchers conclude that most participants havea mild understanding of epilepsy