Research Article
Memory Functioning in Children with Epilepsy: Frontal Lobe Epilepsy, Childhood Absence Epilepsy, and Benign Epilepsy with Centrotemporal Spikes
Table 1
Demographic and neurological features.
| | | FLE () | CAE () | BECTS () | Control () | P value |
| | Age | M = 10.13 (SD = 2.73) | M = 9.93 (SD = 2.54) | M = 9.77 (SD = 2.43) | M = 10.13 (SD = 2.73) |
0.937 | | Gender | | | | | | | Boys | 77% () | 30% () | 33% () | 50% () | | | Girls | 23% | 70% () | 67% () | 50% () | 0.001 | | Years of education (mother) | | | | | | | Up to 9th grade | 17% () | 23% () | 20% () | 14% () | | | 9th grade | 30% () | 30% () | 47% () | 30% () | | | 12th grade | 30% () | 20% () | 20% () | 33% () | | | Superior | 23% () | 27% () | 13% () | 23% () | 0.736 | | Age at onset (years) | M = 6.40 (SD = 3.10) | M = 6.83 (SD = 2.32) | M = 6.77 (SD = 2.43) | | 0.792 | | Seizure frequency | | | | | | | No seizures (last 6 months) | 57% () | 70% () | 60% () | | | | 1 a month | 30% () | 13% () | 37% () | | 0.177 | | 1 a month | 13% () | 17% () | 3% () | | | | Active duration (months) | M = 27.57 (SD = 36.24) | M = 22.63 (SD = 17.95) | M = 20.90 (SD = 26.44) | | 0.632 | | Treatment | | | | | | | No medication | 7% () | 13% () | 27% () | | | | Monotherapy | 80% () | 73% () | 73% () | | 0.087 | | Duotherapy | 13% () | 13% () | — | | |
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Different from Control (), from CAE (), and from BECTS ().
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