Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Caregivers among Epileptic Pediatric Patients in Jaafer Ibn Auf Hospital-Khartoum-Sudan

Introduction: The most common neurological disorder that affects more than 50 million people worldwide is epilepsy, especially in childhood, adolescence, and the elderly. . It has a prevalence rate of 2.8–19.5/1000 of the general population and is more prevalent in the early years of life. Methodology: Descriptive, cross-sectional hospital-based study design. Result: most of respondents had average to poor knowledge about epilepsy (59%) and poor knowledge about management by (53.5%). caregivers who were not educated were 17(13.4% participants, primary school level in 34(26.8%) participants, secondary school level 43(33.9%) participants, and high graduation level in 33(26%) participants, and (6.3%) of the respondents think that epilepsy is a supernatural disease. Conclusion: Our community still has some misconceptions regarding epilepsy, most of the misconceptions have been due to relating epilepsy to super-natural disease or causes.