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G Butterbaugh1, M Rose, J Thomson
1School of Medicine, Epilepsy Center of Excellence, Room 235F, 1542 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70112-2822, USA. gbutte@lsuhsc.edu
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.
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