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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 May 9.
Published in final edited form as: Acta Neurol Scand. 2020 Jan 22;141(5):388–396. doi: 10.1111/ane.13216

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
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