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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Feb 28.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatry Res. 2007 Feb 7;154(2):147–155. doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2006.09.001

Table 1.

Demographic/Clinical Characteristics for Patients with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder and Healthy Controls

Variable Patients (N=77) Controls (N=55) Analysis
Mean S.D. Mean S.D. t P
Age, years 34.3 10.5 32.7 11.0 0.86 0.39
WRAT Reading 98.0 13.1 108.6 9.6 5.23 0.0001
SAPS, total 8.0 4.5
SANS, total 9.7 4.5
BPRS, total 46.5 11.1
N % N % χ2 p
Sex, male 57 74.0 32 58.2 3.67 0.06
Right-handed 70 90.9 52 94.6 1.02 0.60

Abbreviations: SAPS, Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms; SANS, Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms; WRAT = Wide Range Achievement Test, 3rd edition.