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Epilepsy, Neurocysticercosis And, Poverty At Mphumaze And Marhambeni Locations, In South Africa
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Foyaca-Sibat, Humberto |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Abstract | Objective To determine the prevalence of epilepsy and to screening knowledge about neurocysiticercosis (NCC) in adult population of two South Africa rural community. Setting: Mphumaze is 2.4 k, away from Qumbu along the N2 road on the way to Kokstad. Qumbu is 56km away from Mthatha, the capital of the former Transkei. Design: A two-stage design study was used. The first stage involved screening of the general population on door-to-door basis by interviewing peoples living in 100 household selected by block-randomisation procedure using an internationally validated questionnaire for detecting epilepsy and knowledge about some associated diseases. The second stage consisted of a neurological assessment of the peoples who screened positive. Results: The prevalence of active epilepsy among adult population was 9.7/1000, and 14.7/1000 in children. Most of epileptic patients were not under regular anti-epileptic treatment, 91 % of the total population had not idea about NCC. Conclusions: The prevalence of epilepsy is high compared with a similar community but a poor utilization of anti-epileptic treatment is cause for concern. Traditional belief's roots on this community are considerably deep. community diagnosis on epilepsy and neurocysticercosis at Mphumaze and Marhambeni was aimed at evaluating the health status of these two villages and to give an insight into the prevalence of epilepsy and neurocysticercosis (NCC) that the Qumbu Community at large was subjected to. The prevalence of epilepsy and NCC were identified, accompanied by the risk factors that may have the cause of dominance of those diseases e.g. Sanitation, shelter, dietary habits etc. On the evaluation it became apparent that this community is of very low socio-economic status, the majority of the people is unemployed and the people depend on pension, thus the community as a whole is poverty stricken. A considerably large number of inhabitants were illiterate. The community lacked the fundamental necessities to ensure a better living e.g. water supply. In conclusion the community was found to be susceptible to NCC and therefore prompt to epilepsy. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.5580/159 |
| Volume Number | 7 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://print.ispub.com/api/0/ispub-article/3372 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.5580/159 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
