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Calibration of the Epilepsy Questionnaire for Use in a Low-Resource Setting
المؤلفون المشاركون
Ogunniyi, Adesola
Yaria, Joseph O.
المصدر
Journal of Environmental and Public Health
العدد
المجلد 2020، العدد 2020 (31 ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2020)، ص ص. 1-8، 8ص.
الناشر
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
تاريخ النشر
2020-08-31
دولة النشر
مصر
عدد الصفحات
8
التخصصات الرئيسية
الملخص EN
Background.
Burden of epilepsy in sub-Saharan Africa is huge in the midst of shortage of human resource in its health sector.
Using skilled staff to supervise and support lower level healthcare workers providing frontline primary healthcare is a pragmatic coping solution.
But, lower level health providers face enormous challenges due to absent clinical algorithms or pragmatic rapid diagnostic tests.
Objective.
This study aimed to determine if the use of an epilepsy questionnaire in a traditional clinical setting would improve semiological details obtained and diagnostic accuracy.
Methods.
A prospective study was conducted involving patients diagnosed with epilepsy each with an eye witness who had regularly witnessed the seizures.
Routine seizure history from clinical documentation and an interviewer-based questionnaire were compared.
The data obtained were assessed for content, accuracy, intermethod and test-retest reliability.
Results.
Sixty-seven patients with a median age of 24 years were recruited.
Routine seizure history had obtained less semiological details with inadequate description of nonmotor manifestations and lateralizing motor details.
The questionnaire-obtained history showed higher accuracy for generalized onset seizure (0.83 vs.
0.56) and focal onset seizures (0.79 vs.
0.59).
The questionnaire-obtained history also had good test-retest reliability for various semiological domains except automatisms.
Conclusions.
Routine seizure histories are not standardized.
The use of a questionnaire goes a long way in improving semiology description in a low-resource setting and guides the health provider on what details to focus on.
The use of epilepsy questionnaires should, therefore, be considered to improve semiology, especially in nonspecialist settings.
نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)
Yaria, Joseph O.& Ogunniyi, Adesola. 2020. Calibration of the Epilepsy Questionnaire for Use in a Low-Resource Setting. Journal of Environmental and Public Health،Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1184331
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)
Yaria, Joseph O.& Ogunniyi, Adesola. Calibration of the Epilepsy Questionnaire for Use in a Low-Resource Setting. Journal of Environmental and Public Health No. 2020 (2020), pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1184331
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)
Yaria, Joseph O.& Ogunniyi, Adesola. Calibration of the Epilepsy Questionnaire for Use in a Low-Resource Setting. Journal of Environmental and Public Health. 2020. Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1184331
نوع البيانات
مقالات
لغة النص
الإنجليزية
الملاحظات
Includes bibliographical references
رقم السجل
BIM-1184331
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