Table 5.

Personal safety characteristics

	Epilepsy group	Control group	p
Abuse (n=338)			<0·0001
Missing	2 (1%)	2 (1%)
Never	104 (62%)	141 (83%)
Sometimes	47 (28%)	24 (14%)
Often	16 (10%)	2 (1%)
Rape (n=176)*			0·004
Missing	0	1 (1%)
Never	70 (80%)	84 (96%)
Sometimes	17 (19%)	3 (3%)
Often	1 (1%)	0
Transactional sex (n=176)			0·05
Missing	1 (1%)	1 (1%)
Never	44 (50%)	41 (47%)
Sometimes	37 (42%)	45 (51%)
Often	6 (7%)	1 (1%)

Data are number (%).

^*Women only.

Note that all women attended the interview alone and therefore the rape and transactional sex questions were asked of all 176.