Sociodemographic and Clinical Variables of Depression among Patients with Epilepsy in a Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Nigeria

Table 3

Comparison of the clinical characteristics of the study subjects in the depressed and nondepressed study groups ().

Variables	Depression group (%) ()	No depression group ()		D. F	value
Seizure diagnosis
Grand mal	25 (8.3)	277
Others	10 (10.2)	88		1	0.56
Age at seizure onset (yrs)
0–19	22 (17.6%)	240
20–39	13 (15.8%)	115
40–59	0	10
≥50
Range: 1–59
Mean (S.D)	14.83 (8.50)	16.57 (10.70)		398	0.35
Duration of seizure (yrs)
0–19.9	24 (7.3%)	304
20.0-39.9	9 (13.4%)	58
40.0-59.9	24 (40%)	3
Range: 0.17-42.50
Mean (S.D)	15.22 (11.27)	11.94 (8.15)		37.48	0.10
Duration since last seizure(days)
0–100	30 (10.5%)	256
≥101	5 (4.4%)	109
Range: 1–5475
Mean (S.D)	69.49 (155.20)	223.15 (573.41)		45.62	0.02
Physical complications
No	20 (6.3)	298
Yes	15 (18.3)	67		1	<0.01
Seizure in the last one month
No	12 (6.2)	183
Yes	23 (11.2)	182		1	0.07
Psychoactive drug prior seizure
No	32 (8.8)	333
Yes	3 (8.6)	32		1	0.06
Current hard drug use
No	34 (9.2)	337
Yes	1 (3.4)	28		1	0.25
Seizure drug
Monodrug	29 (8.0)	332
Multiple drugs	6 (1.8)	33		1	0.13
Medical disorder
No	30 (8.3)	330
Yes	5 (12.5)	35		1	0.26
Previous hospitalization
No	32 (9.0)	323
Yes	3 (6.7)	42		1	0.43
Maternal pregnancy complications
No	25 (8.8)	260
Yes	1 (16.7)	5		2	0.78
Not reported	9 (8.3)	100
Delivery-related complications
No	24 (8.5)	258
Yes	2 (22.2)	7		2	0.35
Not reported	9 (8.8)	100
GHQ caseness
No	6 (1.8)	323
Yes	29 (40.8)	42		1	<0.001
EEG report
Negative	17 (10.4)	146
Positive	18 (7.6)	219	Χ^2 = 0.972	1	0.32