Research Article
Public Knowledge and Attitude towards Epilepsy and Its Associated Factors: Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study, Ethiopia, 2019
Table 1
Sociodemographic characteristics of the study participants in Debre Berhan, 2019.
| Variables | Frequency | Percent |
| Age in years | 18–35 | 372 | 62.4 | 35–45 | 130 | 21.8 | >45 | 94 | 15.8 |
| Occupation | Farmer or housewife | 98 | 16.4 | Private workers | 170 | 28.5 | Daily laborer | 61 | 10.2 | Student | 65 | 10.9 | Government employee | 202 | 33.9 |
| Educational status | Had not attended modern education | 116 | 19.5 | Primary | 95 | 15.9 | Secondary and pre. | 145 | 24.3 | >12 grade | 240 | 40.3 |
| Family role | Family head | 386 | 64.8 | Son/daughter | 91 | 15.3 | Living alone | 119 | 20 |
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