{"pk":59616,"title":"Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practice towards Epilepsy (KAPE) Survey of Chinese and Vietnamese College Students in the U.S.","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We conducted the first national cross-sectional survey of Chinese and Vietnamese American adults about their knowledge, attitudes, and practice towards epilepsy. We used a convenience sampling method to recruit 2,831 adults in 37 cities from 7 states. In this article, we present our results from the analysis of a subset of the college student population. A 34-item survey instrument available in English, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), and Vietnamese was administered by trained surveyors to 371 college students in 4 states. Chinese and Vietnamese college students generally held the same attitudes towards and had similar misunderstandings about epilepsy. One notable disparity in attitudes is that 15% of Chinese, as compared to 40% of Vietnamese, felt that PWE have below-average intelligence. We found that misunderstandings about and discrimination towards epilepsy among college students generally did not differ between different genders or ethnicities.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"epilepsy"},{"word":"social attitudes"},{"word":"Asian American"},{"word":"Mental Health"},{"word":"college students"},{"word":"Biological and Biomedical Sciences"}],"section":"Research","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9pt2d148","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Kenny","middle_name":"","last_name":"Chung","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Berkeley","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2010-06-22T03:00:00-04:00","date_accepted":"2010-06-22T03:00:00-04:00","date_published":"2010-06-23T03:00:00-04:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_bsj/article/59616/galley/45597/download/"}]}