Background & Objective: Epilepsy is not only a common neurological disorder, but also a stigmatising cause of psychosocial difficulties and discrimination. This study aimed to evaluate adults’ ...knowledge levels and attitudes toward epilepsy.
Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted between August and September 2022 from four family healthcare units in Samsun, Türkiye. In the questionnaire, a personal information form, the Epilepsy Knowledge Scale (EKS), and the Epilepsy Attitude Scale (EAS) were used.
Results: Four hundred and six people participated in this study. The mean age of the participants was 39.4±13.6 years, and 54.2% were women. The mean EKS score was 9.9±3.1 (Maximum 16), and the mean EAS score was 56.8±8.9 (Maximum 70). University graduates (p=0.001), participants familiar with individuals with epilepsy (p<0.001), with epilepsy in the family (p<0.001), who had witnessed epileptic seizures (p<0.001), who had previously heard about epilepsy (p<0.001), and who had read about epilepsy (p<0.001) registered higher mean epilepsy knowledge scores. Participants over 35 (p=0.002), unmarried individuals (p<0.001), university graduates (p<0.001), the employed (p=0.008), participants with children (p<0.001), who knew individuals with epilepsy (p=0.016), with epilepsy patients in the family (p=0.023), who had witnessed epileptic seizures (p<0.001), who had previously heard of epilepsy (p=0.012), and who had read about epilepsy (p<0.001) registered higher mean attitudes to epilepsy scores. Positive attitudes toward epilepsy increased according to the level of knowledge of epilepsy (r=0.387; p<0.001).
Conclusion: The participants from Samsun, Türkiye exhibited moderate levels of knowledge about epilepsy and positive attitudes toward the disease. Increasing levels of knowledge were associated with increasingly positive attitudes toward epilepsy.
Using the inputs of the production system efficiently is one of the most important factors to increase the competitiveness of the companies. Increasing efficiency of the fabric usage which is one of ...the most sufficient inputs of the ready-made garment production, decreasing the product cost. Factors which affect the fabric usage efficiency are placement of the garment patterns to the marker plan, fabric width and size distribution of marker assortment. In this study, effect of the size distribution of marker assortment and the fabric width on the fabric usage efficiency was investigated. For the application processes, 24 different fabrics width were obtained for (from) 4 different size distributions and totally 96 marker plans were prepared. By analyzing the prepared marker plans, fabric usage ratios were obtained and the effect of the fabric width and the assortment distribution on the fabric usage efficiency was investigated.
