Personality traits in patients with refractory versus non-refractory epilepsy

Middle East Current Psychiatry

Table 1 Sociodemographic data among the studied sample

	Refractory epilepsy		Unrefractory epilepsy		Total (n = 90)	Control people
	No.	%	No.	%	Total (n = 90)	No.	%
Age (mean ± SD)	36.87 ± 8.49		38.96 ± 13.11			36.2 ± 12.18
Gender
Male	26	57.8	16	35.6	42(46.67%)	23	57.5
Female	19	42.2	29	64.4	48(53.33%)	17	42.5
Education
Illiterate	35	77.8	33	73.3	68(75.56%)	33	82.5
Read and write	5	11.1	0	0	5(5.56%)	2	5
primary education	5	11.1	12	26.7	17(18.89%)	5	12.5
Marital status
Single	15	33.3	11	24.4	26(28.89%)	12	30
Married	24	53.3	32	71.1	56(62.22%)	26	65
Divorced	5	11.1	0	0	5(5.56%)
Widow	1	2.2	2	4.4	3(3.33%)	2	5
Occupation
Not working	26	57.8	35	77.8	61(67.78%)	17	42.5
Manual worker	19	42.2	10	22.2	29(32.22%)	23	57.5