TABLE 2.
Demographic information for study participants at the time of the second 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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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No psychiatric disorder | Non-suicidal psychiatric disorder | Suicidality | Depressiv disorder | Anxiety disorder | Bipolar disorder | |||
| Count | 105 | 72 | 12 | 21 | 21 | 11 | 1 | |
| Age (years) | 18 ± 2 | 18 ± 2 | 19 ± 2 | 18 ± 2 | 19 ± 2 | 19 ± 3 | 18 | |
| Male sex (%) | 36 | 39 | 33 | 19 | 24 | 18 | 0 | |
| Hispanic ethnicity (%) | 13 | 14 | 0 | 19 | 14 | 18 | 0 | |
| Race | ||||||||
| White (%) | 70 | 68 | 67 | 81 | 76 | 55 | 100 | |
| Black/African American (%) | 14 | 15 | 17 | 10 | 10 | 18 | 0 | |
| Other or missing (%) | 15 | 17 | 17 | 10 | 14 | 27 | 0 | |
| Epilepsy duration at interview (years) | 10.8 ± 1.0 | 10.8 ± 0.9 | 11.3 ± 1.3 | 10.7 ± 0.9 | 10.7 ± 1.2 | 11.2 ± 1.5 | 12 | |
| Seizure type | ||||||||
| Generalized onset (%) | 98 | 97 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | |
| Focal onset (%) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Unknown onset (%) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Syndrome | ||||||||
| CAE (%) | 97 | 97 | 100 | 95 | 95 | 100 | 100 | |
| None (%) | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Other (%) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |