Table 1.

Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics of Cases with Schizophrenia in Butajira, Ethiopia

Characteristics (n)a	Total Population	%
Sex (318)
Male	263	82.7
Female	55	17.3
Age (318), y
15–24	68	21.4
25–34	142	44.6
35–49	108	34.0
Marital status (318)
Single	168	52.8
Married	91	28.6
Other	59	18.6
Education (273)
No formal education	125	45.8
Elementary education	91	33.3
Secondary and above	57	20.9
Residence (308)
Urban/semiurban	75	24.4
Rural	233	75.6
Household size (318)
Less than 3 persons	147	46.2
3 or above	171	53.8
Religion (300)
Muslim	231	77.0
Christian	69	23.0
On antipsychotics (318)
50% of follow-up time or longer	70	22.0
Other	248	78.0
Type of onset (232)
Acute	156	67.2
Insidious	76	32.8
Duration of illness (313), y
2 or less	80	25.6
Longer than 2	233	74.4
Age of onseta (n = 295), y
19 or less	87	29.5
20–29	153	51.9
30 or more	55	18.6
Clinical subtypes (n = 318)
Paranoid	108	34.0
Hebephrenic	17	5.4
Catatonic	23	7.2
Undifferentiated	119	37.4
Residual	44	13.8
Other	7	2.2
Treatment experience at baseline
Antipsychotic treatment	33	10.4
Treatment from informal sectorb	119	37.4

^aTotal number in some categories is less than 318 because of missing values.

^bIncludes traditional and religious healers.