TABLE 2.
Mental Health Characteristics of Young Adults Who Had Esotropia or Exotropia as Children and Control Subjects
| Characteristic | No. (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strabismus (N = 407) |
Esotropia (N = 266) |
Exotropia (N = 141) |
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| Case | Control | P | Case | Control | P | Case | Control | P | |
| No. of patients with mental illness | 168 (41.3) | 125 (30.7) | .002a | 93 (35) | 87 (32.7) | .65 | 75 (53.2) | 38 (27) | <.001a |
| Total no. of disorders | 406 | 283 | .003a | 220 | 195 | .43 | 186 | 88 | <.001a |
| No. of patients using psychiatric medications | 92 (31.6) | 74 (21.4) | .004 | 51 (27.1) | 49 (20.9) | .17 | 41 (38.3) | 25 (22.3) | .01 |
| No. of patients with psychiatric emergency department visits | 35 (9.9) | 24 (6.3) | .08 | 14 (6.2) | 13 (5.3) | .70 | 21 (16.4) | 11 (8.0) | .04 |
| No. of patients with psychiatric inpatient admissions | 27 (7.6) | 15 (3.9) | .04 | 13 (5.8) | 8 (3.2) | .26 | 14 (10.9) | 7 (5.1) | .11 |
| No. of patients with suicide attempts | 12 (3.4) | 8(2.1) | .36 | 5 (2.2) | 4 (1.6) | .74 | 7 (5.5) | 4 (2.9) | .36 |
| No. of patients with suicidal ideation | 40 (11.4) | 16(4.2) | <.001a | 19 (8.5) | 10 (4.1) | .05 | 21 (16.4) | 6 (4.4) | .002a |
P values were obtained by using Fisher’s exact test.
a
P values remained significant even after adjustment for family history variables in logistic regression analyses.