Open Access<p>Teachers’ Knowledge About Epilepsy and Their Attitudes Toward Students with Epilepsy: A Cross-Sectional Survey in the City of Tahoua (Niger)</p>
Author(s) -
Moussa Toudou Daouda,
Abdoul Kadir Ibrahim-Mamadou
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
neuropsychiatric disease and treatment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1178-2021
pISSN - 1176-6328
DOI - 10.2147/ndt.s276691
Subject(s) - epilepsy , medicine , cross sectional study , family medicine , association (psychology) , questionnaire , disease , psychiatry , psychology , pathology , social science , sociology , psychotherapist
In this survey, first, we aimed to investigate the views held about epilepsy of primary and secondary school teachers in the city of Tahoua (Niger, a Sub-Saharan African country), and secondarily, how their experience and knowledge about epilepsy influence their attitudes towards school children with epilepsy.