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Health Education Program Enhancing Self-care of Epilepsy Patients : a Review Article

This literature review was written to develop health education program enhancing self care of epilepsy patients. As with other chronic disorders, people with epilepsy should receive systematic health education about how to manage seizures most effectively. A health education program can offer patients an opportunity to increase their confidence In their own ability either to manage or to avoid seizures while engaging m routine activities. Increasing individuals' level of confidence may, in turn, encourage them to perform self care activities more frequently. Enhancing patients' levels of confidence can be equated to encreasing their perceived self-efficacy. Research has provided evidence that educational interventions designed to improve people's perceptions of their self-efficacy significantly affect their self care. Developing programs to increase patients' self-efficacy may have implications for nurses who help patients with epilepsy manage their seizure events. This paper describes the self-care, health education of epilepsy patients; the relevance of self-efficacy as the principal theoretical basis for the program's design: and intervention strategy from the literature on behavioral psychology.