title: Mental health symptoms in partial epilepsy.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, Epilepsy Center of Excellence, Room 235F, 1542 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70112-2822, USA. gbutte@lsuhsc.edu
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Butterbaugh
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rose
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Thomson
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Roques
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Costa
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brinkmeyer
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Olejniczak
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Fisch
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Carey
mesh_terms: 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