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Abstract
Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder that can be complicated by neurobehavioral comorbidities, which include depression; a highly prevalent, relatively underdiagnosed and undertreated comorbid condition in epilepsy that significantly impacts patients’health-related quality of life.
The aim of this study was to evaluate depression in a sample of children with epilepsy looking for any association between depression in these children and their demographic or seizure related factors to highlight the potential risk factors for depression in epileptic children.
Our study was conducted upon 80 epileptic children (of age 6-13 years old) divided into two groups ((group (A): with a diagnosis of depressive disorder (n=30), and group (B): without any depressive disorder (n=50)).
Our study found that about 37.5%of 80 patients found to be depressed were not previously diagnosed or treated. Also, there was a statistical significance between both groups as regards age, past history for psychiatric illness, duration of epilepsy, seizure frequency, number of epileptic children who thought epilepsy affected their social life and education, suicidal ideation and mean scores of quality of life in epilepsy. There was no statistical difference between both groups as regards gender, education, family history of mood disorders or epilepsy and any of the clinical epilepsy-related variables (age at onset of epilepsy, seizure type, monotherpay / polytherapy by AEDs, presence or absence of EEG findings).