Table 1.
Demographic, comorbidity, and epilepsy variables of study groups
| Variables | HC (n=27) |
CPS (n=20) |
CAE (n=21) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chronological age (yr) (SD) | 10.9 (2.6) | 10.9 (2.7) | 9.6 (2.1) |
| Sex (%) | |||
| Male | 52 | 45 | 29 |
| Female | 48 | 55 | 71 |
| Ethnicity (%) | |||
| Caucasian | 37 | 53 | 43 |
| Non-Caucasian | 63 | 47 | 57 |
| Socioeconomic status (%) | |||
| High | 26 | 20 | 24 |
| Low | 74 | 80 | 76 |
| Age of seizure onset (yr) (SD) | 6.9(3.7) | 7.0 (2.1) | |
| Duration of illness (yr) (SD) | 4.2 (2.4) | 2.6 (2.5) | |
| Seizure frequency per year (log) | 2.9 (2.7) | 5.2 (3.8) | |
| Prolonged seizures (%) | 25 | 9.5 | |
| Febrile seizures (%) | 10 | 4.7 | |
| Antiepileptic drugs (%) | |||
| None | 0 | 9.5 | |
| Monotherapy | 70.0 | 61.9 | |
| Polytherapy | 30.0 | 28.6 | |
| Full Scale IQa | 109.8(12.9) | 94.5 (12.9) | 105.6 (15.9) |
| SLQb | 103.8(16.3) | 93.2 (14.7) | 98.9 (17.2) |
| CBCL Scores | |||
| Social Problemsc | 51.0 (2.9) | 58.6 (8.3) | 55.7 (7.9) |
| Thought Problemsd | 51.7 (3.9) | 58.8 (6.7) | 59.8 (7.9) |
| Attention Problemse | 51.9 (2.6) | 59.9 (7.8) | 61.7 (10.6) |
| Peer Interactionf | 48.5 (5.4) | 39.6 (9.8) | 44.4 (7.3) |
a
CPS significantly lower than both CAE (t(65) = 2.62, p = .01) and HC (t(65) = 3.75, p = .0004)
b
Speech language quotient for CPS significantly lower than for HC (t(65) = 2.21, p = .03)
c
Both CPS (t(65) = 3.76, p = .0004) and CAE (t(65) = 2.44, p = .02) significantly higher than HC
d
Both CPS (t(65) = 3.67, p = .0005) and CAE (t(65) = 4.35, p = .0001) significantly higher than HC
e
Both CPS (t(65) = 3.49, p = .001) and CAE (t(65) = 4.90, p = .0001) significantly higher than HC
f
CPS significantly lower than both CAE (t(65) = 1.96, p = .05) and HC (t(65) = 3.81, p = .0003)