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Comic book-based educational program on epilepsy for high-school students: Results from a pilot study in the Gran Chaco region, Bolivia
Título
Comic book-based educational program on epilepsy for high-school students: Results from a pilot study in the Gran Chaco region, Bolivia
Autoría
Calogero Edoardo Cicero
Loretta Giuliano
Valeria Todaro
Chiara Colli
Sandra Padilla
Estela Vilte
Elizabeth Blanca Crespo Gómez
Walter Mario Camargo Villarreal
Alessandro Bartoloni
Mario Zappia
Alessandra Nicoletti
Descripción
In the Bolivian Chaco, we have previously found high levels of stigma towards people with epilepsy (PWE) especially
expressed by high school students. In order to increase the knowledge about epilepsy, we have tested a comic book-based intervention on a sample of high school students.
Methods: The study has been conducted in the Bolivian Chaco region where two urban and two rural classrooms
have been randomly selected. Students have been administered a knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP)
questionnaire, and then they underwent a comic book-based educational program where they were randomly
assigned either to an autonomous reading or a character interpretation methodology. The same KAP questionnaire
has been administered after the teaching session and at a three months follow-up. Mean KAP scores at the baseline were compared with the after teaching and the three-month assessment.
Results: Eighty-three students with a mean age of 15.5 ± 0.9 years, of whom 38 (45.8%) males, were recruited.
After the comic book session, students improved in the global score (p b 0.001) and in the knowledge (p b
0.001), attitudes (p=0.004), and practices (p b 0.001) subscores. Both the autonomous reading and the character
interpretation groups significantly improved in the global score, but only the latter improved in all the
subscores. At the three months follow-up, there were no differences in the global, knowledge, and attitudes
subscores, compared with scores immediately after the intervention.
Conclusion: Using a comic book to teach about epilepsy led to a significant improvement in the knowledge, attitudes,
and practices about the disease in high school students of LMIC. This teaching strategy can be easily implemented
in LMIC.
expressed by high school students. In order to increase the knowledge about epilepsy, we have tested a comic book-based intervention on a sample of high school students.
Methods: The study has been conducted in the Bolivian Chaco region where two urban and two rural classrooms
have been randomly selected. Students have been administered a knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP)
questionnaire, and then they underwent a comic book-based educational program where they were randomly
assigned either to an autonomous reading or a character interpretation methodology. The same KAP questionnaire
has been administered after the teaching session and at a three months follow-up. Mean KAP scores at the baseline were compared with the after teaching and the three-month assessment.
Results: Eighty-three students with a mean age of 15.5 ± 0.9 years, of whom 38 (45.8%) males, were recruited.
After the comic book session, students improved in the global score (p b 0.001) and in the knowledge (p b
0.001), attitudes (p=0.004), and practices (p b 0.001) subscores. Both the autonomous reading and the character
interpretation groups significantly improved in the global score, but only the latter improved in all the
subscores. At the three months follow-up, there were no differences in the global, knowledge, and attitudes
subscores, compared with scores immediately after the intervention.
Conclusion: Using a comic book to teach about epilepsy led to a significant improvement in the knowledge, attitudes,
and practices about the disease in high school students of LMIC. This teaching strategy can be easily implemented
in LMIC.
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Editor
Epilepsy & Behavior 107 (2020) 107076
Colaborador
Sanofi Global Health Department, and “Convenio of Salud Camiri”
Identificador
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yebeh.2020.107076
1525-5050/© 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
1525-5050/© 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Materia
Epilepsy Health promotion Tropical health
Fecha de entrega
february 17, 2020
Fecha de aceptación
2020
