TY - JOUR
T1 - Stigma in epilepsy
AU - Fiest, Kirsten M.
AU - Birbeck, Gretchen L.
AU - Jacoby, Ann
AU - Jette, Nathalie
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements Kirsten M. Fiest is funded by an Alberta Innovates Health Solutions (AIHS) studentship. Nathalie Jette holds a Canada Research Chair in Neurological Health Services Research and an AIHS Population Health Investigator Award. Gretchen L. Birbeck is funded by the US NIH to conduct epilepsy-associated stigma research in Zambia. Ann Jacoby holds the Chair in Medical Sociology in the Department of Public Health, University of Liverpool, UK.
Funding Information:
Gretchen L. Birbeck has received grants from the NIH and travel/ accommodation expenses from the WHO and the NIH.
PY - 2014/5
Y1 - 2014/5
N2 - Stigma remains a weight those with epilepsy have to carry and a defining feature of their identity. This article highlights recent studies published in the area of stigma, knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding epilepsy. First, recent studies addressing the frequency of stigma and factors associated with stigma are discussed. Second, tools developed to ascertain stigma in epilepsy, or knowledge, attitudes, and practices, are examined. Lastly, we discuss interventions recently studied to reduce stigma in epilepsy.
AB - Stigma remains a weight those with epilepsy have to carry and a defining feature of their identity. This article highlights recent studies published in the area of stigma, knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding epilepsy. First, recent studies addressing the frequency of stigma and factors associated with stigma are discussed. Second, tools developed to ascertain stigma in epilepsy, or knowledge, attitudes, and practices, are examined. Lastly, we discuss interventions recently studied to reduce stigma in epilepsy.
KW - Epilepsy
KW - Knowledge, attitudes, practice
KW - Social morbidity
KW - Socioeconomic
KW - Stigma
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84897451240&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11910-014-0444-x
DO - 10.1007/s11910-014-0444-x
M3 - Article
C2 - 24652452
AN - SCOPUS:84897451240
SN - 1528-4042
VL - 14
JO - Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports
JF - Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports
IS - 5
M1 - 444
ER -