Table 2 Clinical and medications variables among the studied samples
From: Personality traits in patients with refractory versus non-refractory epilepsy
| Â | Refractory epilepsy | Unrefractory epilepsy | p value |
|---|---|---|---|
Mean ± SD | Mean ± SD | ||
Age at onset | 17.78 ± 8.33 | 20.89 ± 8.11 | 0.076 |
Duration of illness (years) | 19.09 ± 6.83 | 18.07 ± 9.52 | 0.56 |
Duration of therapy (years) | 18.38 ± 6.85 | 17.27 ± 9.39 | 0.523 |
Seizure frequency (per year) | 36.36 ± 32.88 | 10.16 ± 5.29 | < 0.001** |
Medications | |||
 Monotherapy | 1(2.2%) | 40(88.9%) | < 0.001** |
 Polytherapy | 44(97.8%) | 5(11.1%) | |
EEG | |||
 Mild | 24(53.3%) | 38(84.4%) | < 0.001** |
 Moderate | 10(22.2%) | 7(15.6%) | |
 Sever | 11(24.4%) | 0(0%) | |