KNOWLEDGE ABOUT EPILEPSY AMONG TEACHERS AND EPILEPTIC PATIENTS

SUMMARY — 223 epileptics patients and their families and 136 teachers from public and pri-vate schools were submitted to similar questionnaires related to inheritance, transmission, cure, complilcation rates, care during seizures, need for information on the disease, habits, comparison with other diseases and to the educational and social performances of epileptics. Cure and complication nates accounted for the main differences between those populations. Epileptics could recognize a bigger number of complications but still expected to be cured from the disease. The majority of teachers and patients have never been informed about epilepsy and this finding was related to the big number of equivocal answers obtained from them. Put together, the data showed that social and educational performance of epileptic patients could be disturbed by medical and social parameters. Some, of them could be im-proved by an educational program towards these aspects of epilepsy. Conhecimentos acerca de epilepsia entre professores e entre pacientes epilépticos. RESUMO — 223 pacientes epilépticos e suas famílias e 136 professores da rede pública e pri-vada foram submetidos a questionários similares que incluíam questões relacionadas à here-ditariedade, transmissibilidade, cura, complicações, cuidados durante as crises, necessidad