The causes of epilepsy are primarily linked to the supernatural, with the results indicating that rural community residents largely attribute epilepsy to "evil spirits". This implies that the rural communities' knowledge about the causes of epilepsy is based on the social causation theory of disease and disability, which relates diseases to the supernatural. Management of the condition was mainly seen as spiritual.
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