TABLE 1.
Demographic information for study participants at the time of the first interviews. Non-suicidal psychiatric disorders include all psychiatric disorders identified without a comorbidity of suicidality. No psychiatric disorder, suicidality, and non-suicidal psychiatric disorders are mutually exclusive groups. Many participants were identified with multiple individual comorbidities
| Overall | Comorbidity by group |
Individual comorbidity |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N psychiatric disorder | Non-suicidal psychiatric disorder | Suicidality | Depressive disorder | Anxiety disorder | Bipolar disorder | ||
| Count | 122 | 75 | 17 | 30 | 29 | 15 | 6 |
| Age (years) | 17 ± 2 | 17 ± 3 | 19 ± 2 | 18 ± 2 | 18 ± 2 | 19 ± 2 | 18 ± 2 |
| Male sex (%) | 38 | 43 | 29 | 30 | 24 | 27 | 33 |
| Hispanic ethnicity (%) | 11 | 13 | 0 | 13 | 10 | 13 | 17 |
| Race | |||||||
| White (%) | 72 | 67 | 76 | 83 | 79 | 73 | 67 |
| Black/African American (%) | 15 | 16 | 18 | 10 | 14 | 7 | 17 |
| Other or missing (%) | 13 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 07 | 20 | 17 |
| Epilepsy duration at interview (years) | 9.8 ± 1.4 | 9.8 ± 1.5 | 9.8 ± 1.5 | 10.1 ± 0.9 | 9.9 ± 1.3 | 10.1 ± 0.9 | 10.5 ±0.6 |
| Seizure type | |||||||
| Generalized onset (%) | 93 | 92 | 88 | 97 | 93 | 93 | 100 |
| Focal onset (%) | 5 | 4 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| Unknown onset (%) | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Syndrome | |||||||
| CAE (%) | 88 | 88 | 88 | 87 | 83 | 80 | 83 |
| None (%) | 8 | 8 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 17 |
| Other (%) | 4 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 0 |