Level of Awareness and Attitude Toward Cerebral Palsy Among Parents in Al-Baha City, Saudi Arabia

Level of Awareness and Attitude Toward Cerebral Palsy Among Parents in Al-Baha City, Saudi Arabia

Background Cerebral palsy (CP) is a chronic disorder of motion, posture, and tone which occurs due to brain insult during the period of brain growth. It is a disabling disorder in both motor and intellectual aspects. Fortunately, CP is a manageable disease that can be managed in part by increasing t...

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Published in:Curēus (Palo Alto, CA) Vol. 14; no. 11; p. e31791
Main Authors: Salih, Elfatih M, Alghamdi, Saleem A, Alghamdi, Rayan A, Alghamdi, Mohannad S, Alzahrani, Turki A
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States Cureus Inc 22-11-2022
Subjects:
Births
Cerebral palsy
Children & youth
Cognition & reasoning
Consent
Convulsions & seizures
Elementary schools
Ethics
Higher education
Knowledge
Paralysis
Parents & parenting
Questionnaires
Spasticity
Saudi Arabia
cerebral palsy
awareness
attitude
knowledge
parents
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Summary:Background Cerebral palsy (CP) is a chronic disorder of motion, posture, and tone which occurs due to brain insult during the period of brain growth. It is a disabling disorder in both motor and intellectual aspects. Fortunately, CP is a manageable disease that can be managed in part by increasing the knowledge and understanding of the parents. Methodology This cross-sectional, prospective, community-based study aimed to assess the level of parents' knowledge and their attitude toward CP using an electronic questionnaire. The parents' knowledge was classified as good or poor based on an adopted scoring system. The parents' attitude was categorized as positive or negative. Results Our study results showed that good knowledge (those with a score more than 60% of the total score) was noted in 275 (61.1%) participants, whereas 175 of the participants had poor knowledge (38.9%), especially regarding awareness of the diagnosis of CP. Conclusions Most participants had an overall good knowledge of CP although they had insufficient knowledge of some aspects of the disease such as causes, disease course, clinical presentations, diagnosis, and prognosis. Although the results showed a positive attitude concerning playing with a child with CP, unfortunately, there was a negative attitude toward hiring a CP patient and a strongly negative attitude toward marrying a patient with CP.
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ISSN:2168-8184
2168-8184
DOI:10.7759/cureus.31791