Table 1: Sociodemographic data on participants.
Parameters | Epileptics (82) | Non Epileptics (832) | (X2) | P-value | |
Age range (years) | 10-50 Mean = 17.73; Median = 17 | 10-80 Mean = 29.68; Median = 26 | |||
Place of birth | Ngie | 85.4% (70/82) | 77.4% (644/832) | ||
Within Momo | 6.1% (5/82) | 8.1% (67/832) | |||
Out of Momo | 8.5% (7/82) | 14.4% (120/832) | |||
Gender | Males | 57.3% (47/82) | 48.3% (402/832) | 2.419 | 0.133 |
Females | 42.7% (35/82) | 51.7% (430/832) | |||
Pit Latrine present at home | 87.8% (72/82) | 84.9% (706/832) | 1.529 | 0.466 | |
Status | Married | 11.0% (9/82) | 49.9% (415/832) | ||
Living with parents | 87.9% (72/82) | 38.7% (322/832) | |||
Living alone | 1.2% (1/82) | 11.1% (92/832) | |||
Literacy level | None | 0% (0/82) | 6.3% (52/832) | ||
Primary | 74.4% (61/82) | 42.2% (351/832) | |||
Secondary | 25.6% (21/82) | 49.0% (408/832) | |||
Above secondary | 0% (0/82) | 2.5% (21/832) | |||
Profession | Farmer | 42.7% (35/82) | 43.3% (360/832) | ||
Salaried employee | 1.2% (1/82) | 7.7% (64/832) | |||
Students | 17.1% (14/82) | 33.1% (275/832) | |||
Business | 0% | 6.0% (50/832) | |||
Herdsmen | 0% | 0.5% (4/832) | |||
House works | 35.4% (29/82) | 5.8% (48/832) | |||
Labourers | 2.4% (2/82) | 3.2% (27/832) | |||
Craftsmen | 1.2% (1/82) | 0.2% (2/832) |