Educational interventions improving knowledge about epilepsy in preschool children

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1525505020308209" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1525505020308209</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yebeh.2020.107640" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.yebeh.2020.107640</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Educational interventions improving knowledge about epilepsy in preschool children

Original language description

Objective: Sufficient public knowledge about epilepsy is a starting point for reducing epilepsy-related stigma and improving quality of life of people with this condition. Thus, interventions aimed at improving such knowledge are greatly needed. However, there is a significant lack of such interventions and none have been applied to preschool children. We aimed to develop effective interventions using the educational board game Action Zone! and a technique known as educational story, and by focusing on the acquisition of knowledge about epilepsy in children aged 5-6 years with no previous knowledge of epilepsy. Methods: Knowledge about epilepsy was measured using a 20-item test consisting of questions selected from educational game and an 11-item test used successfully in our previous intervention study focused on children aged 9-11 years. Both measures exhibited acceptable internal consistency with Cronbach&apos;s alpha of 0.72 and 0.67. In total, 296 children participated in three intervention studies (educational game, educational story, and a revised version of educational story). Level of knowledge was assessed immediately after each intervention and again one month later. Results: We found that all interventions were effective (p = 0.001) in comparison of retest results with baseline of zero level of knowledge based on the statements of children before intervention. Intervention based on educational game resulted in a higher percentage of correct responses in comparison with educational story (p = 0.020). However, the revised version of educational story developed using participatory action research was superior in comparison with the original version (p &lt; 0.001) and fully comparable with educational game (p = 0.864). Conclusions: The results showed the aforesaid interventions were significant and effective ways to establish basic knowledge about epilepsy in the given age group.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

EPILEPSY &amp; BEHAVIOR

ISSN

1525-5050

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

115

Issue of the periodical within the volume

FEB 2021

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

"Nestránkováno"

UT code for WoS article

000617546400032

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85097734420