Mental health symptoms in partial epilepsy.
We evaluated the potential clinical value of the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R) as a multidimensional self-report measure to identify the expected higher rates of clinically significant mental health symptoms in adults with partial/complex partial epilepsy (PE), as compared to a representative sample of adult non-patients. As expected, adults with PE had significantly higher rates of elevated SCL-90-R scale scores than did adult non-patients. The SCL-90-R may serve as both a screening measure to identify patients who could benefit from further mental health services as well as a measure of clinical response to epilepsy- and mental health-related interventions.
Butterbaugh
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School of Medicine, Epilepsy Center of Excellence, Room 235F, 1542 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70112-2822, USA. gbutte@lsuhsc.edu
Rose
M
M
Thomson
J
J
Roques
B
B
Costa
R
R
Brinkmeyer
M
M
Olejniczak
P
P
Fisch
B
B
Carey
M
M
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D008603:Mental Health; D008605:Mental Health Services; D008875:Middle Aged; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales