Epilepsy Arabic renaming to cerebroelectric disorder could minimize the stigma.

IF 2 4区医学 Q3 CLINICAL NEUROLOGY

Epilepsy Research Pub Date : 2024-12-16 DOI:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2024.107495

Doaa A Mekkawy, Nirmeen Kishk, Noha T Abokrysha, Gihan M Ramzy, Reham Mohamed Shamloul, Rehab Magdy, Alshimaa S Othman, Amr Mohamed Fouad, Osama Yacoub, Maged Abdel-Naseer, Hatem S Shehata, Nevin M Shalaby, Amr Hassan, Amal S Ashour, Ahmed Dahshan, Mona Hussein, Mohamed Khodery, Hazem Kamal Alhewag, Dalia Abdelfatah, Nesma Mounir

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Abstract

Background: Naming is an important part of human communication. The precision of medical terms greatly influences the patients and their caregivers. "Alsara'الصرع " is the Arabic term defining epilepsy. However, it has a highly negative impact on patients, as reported by many caring physicians.

Methods: A multiple-choice face-to-face questionnaire was designed to assess stigma among patients with epilepsy (PwE), causes, impact on quality of life, impression of PwE about the Arabic terminology of epilepsy Alsara', and their opinion regarding changing it to precise term "itrab fi kahrabeit el mokh" اضطراب في كهربية المخ" which means disturbance of the electrical brain activity. Stigma was assessed using a three-item stigma scale.The interviewed subjects were recruited from Cairo, Beni Suef, and Sohag University hospitals consecutively during a period from 15 August 2023 to 30 December 2023.

Results: Three hundred seventy-two PwE responded to the survey. Three hundred fifty-one (94.4 %) PwE felt a disease stigma. About 50 % of them attributed this stigma to the Arabic name of the disease. Eighty-four percent accepted changing the name Alsara' into "itrab fi kahrabeit el mokh" and 77.2 % suspected a positive impact of this amendment on society. The occurrence of generalized tonic-clonic seizures was found to be an independent risk factor for epilepsy-associated stigma.

Conclusion: The Arabic nomenclature of epilepsy "Alsara'" is not an accurate term for epilepsy. In addition to being associated with many poor misconceptions and stigma. We hope this study will pave the way to replace it with a more appropriate and less defaming term.

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Epilepsy Research 医学-临床神经学

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0.10

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4.50%

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143

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62 days

期刊介绍： Epilepsy Research provides for publication of high quality articles in both basic and clinical epilepsy research, with a special emphasis on translational research that ultimately relates to epilepsy as a human condition. The journal is intended to provide a forum for reporting the best and most rigorous epilepsy research from all disciplines ranging from biophysics and molecular biology to epidemiological and psychosocial research. As such the journal will publish original papers relevant to epilepsy from any scientific discipline and also studies of a multidisciplinary nature. Clinical and experimental research papers adopting fresh conceptual approaches to the study of epilepsy and its treatment are encouraged. The overriding criteria for publication are novelty, significant clinical or experimental relevance, and interest to a multidisciplinary audience in the broad arena of epilepsy. Review articles focused on any topic of epilepsy research will also be considered, but only if they present an exceptionally clear synthesis of current knowledge and future directions of a research area, based on a critical assessment of the available data or on hypotheses that are likely to stimulate more critical thinking and further advances in an area of epilepsy research.