Calibration of the Epilepsy Questionnaire for Use in a Low-Resource Setting.

ABSTRACT:

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 doc

SUBMITTER: Yaria JO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7479480 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature