Table 3.
Quality of village clinicians’ diagnosis of childhood epilepsy.
| Total | Physicians | Non-physicians | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | 95% CI | n (%) | 95% CI | n (%) | 95% CI | |
| Number of village clinicians | 370 | 29 | 341 | |||
| 1. Correct diagnosis a, 1=yes | 234 (63•2) | (58•2, 68•0) | 22 (75•9) | (57•9, 87•8) | 212 (62•2) | (56•9, 67•2) |
| 2. Partially correct diagnosis b, 1=yes | 15 (4•1) | (2•5, 6•6) | 0 (0•0) | (0•0, 11•7) | 15 (4•4) | (2•7, 7•1) |
| 3. Incorrect diagnosis c, 1=yes | 121 (32•7) | (28•1, 37•6) | 7 (24•1) | (12•2, 42•1) | 114 (33•4) | (28•6, 38•6) |
a
Correct diagnosis includes tonic-clonic seizure, epilepsy, or epileptic seizure.
b
Partially correct diagnosis includes neurologic disorder, convulsion, or Chinese slang word synonym (yangdianfeng) for seizure.
c
Incorrect diagnosis includes hysteria, psychological problems (disorder), misdiagnosis of the cause such as rickets caused by calcium deficiency, any other diagnosis not on the list of correct and partially correct diagnoses, or no diagnosis given.