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Effects of an Educational Campaign to Change Employer Attitudes toward Hiring Epileptics

This experimental field study used an intensive educational campaign to try to modify employer attitudes toward hiring persons with epilepsy in the experimental city; there was no campaign in the control city. No statistical differences were found in a comparison of experimental and con trol'ci ties' pre‐ and post‐data. It is suggested that traditional community education methods do not change employer attitudes or practices in hiring qualified persons with epilepsy. Despite employers' ratings of workers with epilepsy as working out well on their jobs, and as being productive, pleasant, cooperative and able‐bodied they did not feel that they could hire more epileptics. The attitudes toward hiring epileptics were fixed and reported as not changing nor likely to change. This supports the common clinical experience in epilepsy that employer resistance is the largest factor responsible for unemployment of persons with epilepsy. These results have implications for the lay and professional organizations conducting public education programs.