Introduction
Epilepsy is known as Apasmara: apa, means negation or loss of; smara, means recollection or consciousness. Epilepsy known form thousands of years but came forward past hundred years. It was known from the Babylonians and Greeks also have records of epilepsy and they represent as Sacred Disease21. In India concept of epilepsy is known from ancient Indian medicine and it was developed during the Vedic period of .In the Ayurvedic literature of Charaka Samhita epilepsy is known. Both Hippocrates and the Charaka Samhita has a thought as that epilepsy was a brain disorder 22. the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) and the International Bureau for Epilepsy (IBE) joined in 1997 with the World Health Organization to …show more content…
22 million people have epilepsy. Nearly 80% of cases occur in the developing world. It is more common as people age increase. In the developed world, new cases occurs most common in babies and the elderly23.
Quality of life is an important health outcome in well-being of individuals. It perceive quality of an individual 's daily life, People with epilpesy have a poor quality of life like other chronic illness. The goals of quality of life is to aspects all emotional, social, and physical of the individual 's life. Pharmacist patient education towards knowledge, attitude, practice (KAP) is the most effectice way in reducing the consequences associated with epilpesy.This will also increase the knowledge and helps in improving skills, change their attitude and improve patient health outcomes in epilpesy. The need to investigate the KAP questionnaire among epilpesy is to aid in future development and evaluating knowledge, attitude and practice towards epilpesy after health care …show more content…
It affects 1% of the population by age 20 and 3% of the population by age 75. It is more common in males than females. Most of those with the disorder (80%) are in the developing world. Poverty is a risk and includes both being from a poor country and being poor relative to others within one 's country. In the developed world epilepsy most commonly starts either in the young or in the old. In the developing world its onset is more common in older children and young adults due to the higher rates of trauma and infectious
Epilepsy is known as Apasmara: apa, means negation or loss of; smara, means recollection or consciousness. Epilepsy known form thousands of years but came forward past hundred years. It was known from the Babylonians and Greeks also have records of epilepsy and they represent as Sacred Disease21. In India concept of epilepsy is known from ancient Indian medicine and it was developed during the Vedic period of .In the Ayurvedic literature of Charaka Samhita epilepsy is known. Both Hippocrates and the Charaka Samhita has a thought as that epilepsy was a brain disorder 22. the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) and the International Bureau for Epilepsy (IBE) joined in 1997 with the World Health Organization to …show more content…
22 million people have epilepsy. Nearly 80% of cases occur in the developing world. It is more common as people age increase. In the developed world, new cases occurs most common in babies and the elderly23.
Quality of life is an important health outcome in well-being of individuals. It perceive quality of an individual 's daily life, People with epilpesy have a poor quality of life like other chronic illness. The goals of quality of life is to aspects all emotional, social, and physical of the individual 's life. Pharmacist patient education towards knowledge, attitude, practice (KAP) is the most effectice way in reducing the consequences associated with epilpesy.This will also increase the knowledge and helps in improving skills, change their attitude and improve patient health outcomes in epilpesy. The need to investigate the KAP questionnaire among epilpesy is to aid in future development and evaluating knowledge, attitude and practice towards epilpesy after health care …show more content…
It affects 1% of the population by age 20 and 3% of the population by age 75. It is more common in males than females. Most of those with the disorder (80%) are in the developing world. Poverty is a risk and includes both being from a poor country and being poor relative to others within one 's country. In the developed world epilepsy most commonly starts either in the young or in the old. In the developing world its onset is more common in older children and young adults due to the higher rates of trauma and infectious