To Assess First aid knowledge and practice For an Epileptic seizure Students Among Governmental High School Teachers In AA, Ethiopia, 2018.
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2018-01
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Addis Ababa Universty
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Background: Epilepsy is one of the most common serious chronic brain disorders and is poorly
understood by the public and has been associated with numerous misconceptions and beliefs.
This coupled with its dramatic clinical manifestations has resulted in a strong social stigma and
physical trauma due to unknown delivery of first aid care .Since teachers have a key role in
society as educators.
Objective:-To assess knowledge and practice of first aid service provision towards epileptic
seizure students among high school teachers in Addis ketema, Arada, Lideta and kirkos Sub
City, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2018.
Methods: Institution based cross-sectional study were conducted from February 19 to march 31,
2018. Data collected by structured self-administer questionnaire which consists knowledge and
practice questions. The data inter into epinfo7 and cleaning was made before export to SPSS
version 23.Cross tabulation was computed for the association between categorical variables,
knowledge and practice among participants could be measured using the Chi square (χ2) test of
independence at level of significance α = 0.05; p-values <0.05.
Result: A total of 378 participants with mean age of 34.2±7.8 SD participated with a response
rate of 92%. Among those (90.6%) heard about the disease called epilepsy.Teachers knowledge
were 144(41.1%) and practice 143(40.9%). Generally, teachers who were trained in first aid
were fewer score (25.6%) than those who were not trained (43.1%) (χ2 = 3.665, p = 0.050) who
were had good knowledge. Teacher who heard about epilepsy (44.2%) the higher opportunity to
had good knowledge than not heard about epilepsy (χ2 = 11.384, p = 0.001).
Conclusion and recommendation: This study showed that there was gap on knowledge and
practice of teachers regarding to epileptic seizure.
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epileptic seizure, Knowledge, practice,