Sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with depression in epilepsy

Alexander W Thompson; John W Miller; Wayne Katon; Naomi Chaytor; Paul Ciechanowski

doi:10.1016/j.yebeh.2009.02.014

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Sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with depression in epilepsy

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Sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with depression in epilepsy

Alexander W Thompson, John W Miller, Wayne Katon, Naomi Chaytor and Paul Ciechanowski

Epilepsy & behavior, Vol.14(4), pp.655-660

2009

DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2009.02.014

PMCID: PMC2668729

PMID: 19233316

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Abstract

The impact of mood disorders on patients with epilepsy is an important and growing area of research. If clinicians are adept at recognizing which patients with epilepsy are at risk for mood disorders, treatment can be facilitated and morbidity avoided. We completed a case–control study (80 depressed subjects, 141 nondepressed subjects) to determine the sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with self-reported depression in people with epilepsy. The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 was used to determine clinically significant depression. In multivariate analyses, depressed subjects with epilepsy were significantly less likely than nondepressed subjects to be married or employed and more likely to report comorbid medical problems and active seizures in the past 6 months. Adjusted for all other variables, subjects with epilepsy reporting lamotrigine use were significantly less likely to be depressed (OR = 0.4, 95% CI: 0.2–0.8) compared with those not reporting lamotrigine use.

Depression

Epidemiology

Epilepsy

Case–control

Seizures

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Title: Subtitle: Sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with depression in epilepsy
Creators: Alexander W Thompson - Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
John W Miller - University of Washington Regional Epilepsy Center, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA
Wayne Katon - Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Naomi Chaytor - University of Washington Regional Epilepsy Center, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA
Paul Ciechanowski - Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Epilepsy & behavior, Vol.14(4), pp.655-660
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2009.02.014
PMID: 19233316
PMCID: PMC2668729
NLM abbreviation: Epilepsy Behav
ISSN: 1525-5050
eISSN: 1525-5069
Publisher: Elsevier Inc
Language: English
Date published: 2009
Academic Unit: Electrical and Computer Engineering; Psychiatry
Record Identifier: 9984003477202771

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