Clinical, demographic, and socioeconomic characteristics of the patient population
| Age (mean years (SD)) | 37.9 (15.8) |
| Sex (% female) | 43.5 |
| Married/cohabitating (%) | 48.2 |
| Education level (%) | |
| Primary/secondary/technical/vocational | 60.9 |
| University studies | 39.1 |
| Unemployed (%) | 82.6 |
| Permanent access to a car and/or mobile phone (%) | 19.1 |
| Epileptic seizure type (%) | |
| Partial seizures | 83.3 |
| Generalised seizures | 16.7 |
| Seizure frequency over the past year (%) | |
| Free of seizures | 32.2 |
| <10 | 39.1 |
| ⩾10 | 28.7 |
| Duration of epilepsy (mean years (SD)) | 18.7 (12.5) |