Table 3.
Components for the education intervention.
Intervention for CHWs, THs and community members | Intervention for biomedical providers |
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• What is epilepsy? | • Epidemiology of epilepsy |
• Types of seizures | • Definition of epilepsy, seizures and other terminologies |
• Causes of epilepsy | • Causes of epilepsy |
• Effects of epilepsy on child development | • Common precipitating factors of epilepsy |
• Treatment of epilepsy: what drugs can and cannot do? | • International classification of epileptic seizures |
• Side effects of drugs | • Diagnosis of epilepsy |
• Drug safety | • Differential diagnosis of epilepsy |
• What to do and not to do during a seizure | • Conditions co-existing with epilepsy |
• When to take PWE to hospital | • Management of epilepsy |
• Prevention of epilepsy | |
• What PWE can and cannot do | |
• Advise to families on how to live with PWE |