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- Title
Providing teachers with education on epilepsy increased their willingness to handle acute seizures in children from one to 10 years of age.
- Authors
Dumeier, Henriette Karoline; Neininger, Martina Patrizia; Bernhard, Matthias Karl; Merkenschlager, Andreas; Kiess, Wieland; Bertsche, Thilo; Bertsche, Astrid
- Abstract
<bold>Aim: </bold>In Germany, preschool teachers supervise children up to six years of age and are also responsible for supervising older pupils after school. This study explored the impact of a teaching session on epilepsy for teachers in charge of children from 1 to 10 years of age.<bold>Methods: </bold>We evaluated the benefit of a teaching session offered to all preschool teachers in Leipzig, Germany, in 2014-2015, by asking them to complete the same questionnaire 12-24 months pre-intervention, and 12 months postintervention.<bold>Results: </bold>Both questionnaires were completed by 123 teachers. The number of teachers who felt they were prepared to handle an acute seizure rose from 36 (29%) pre-intervention to 65 (53%) post-intervention (p < 0.001) and their willingness to administer a prescribed rescue medication rose from 66 (54%) to 93 (76%, p < 0.001). The session also increased the number of teachers who were prepared to take children with epilepsy on excursions under any circumstance from 38 (31%) to 52 (42%, p < 0.05). In addition, the number of teachers who would place a solid object in the child's mouth during an attack fell from 16 (13%) to seven (6%) (p < 0.05).<bold>Conclusion: </bold>Providing a teaching session on epilepsy increased the teachers' knowledge and willingness to act and reduced obsolete, counterproductive measures.
- Subjects
SEIZURES in children; CHILDHOOD epilepsy; PRESCHOOL teachers; HEALTH education; EMERGENCY medical services; PREVENTION; THERAPEUTICS; EPILEPSY; HEALTH attitudes
- Publication
Acta Paediatrica, 2017, Vol 106, Issue 11, p1811
- ISSN
0803-5253
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/apa.13938