Table 3.
Effect of the type of antipsychotic treatment on the evolution of clinical measures (repeated measures analysis)
| Conventional APD | Atypical APD | F | P | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T1 | T2 | T1 | T2 | |||||||
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |||
| PANSS positive | 17.84 | 4.89 | 13.46 | 4.46 | 10.15 | 2.98 | 11.73 | 4.63 | 7.719 | 0.009 |
| PANSS negative | 19.69 | 9.12 | 19.23 | 7.60 | 21.11 | 8.82 | 20.19 | 8.62 | 1.067 | 0.309 |
| PANSS general | 31.61 | 8.69 | 32.30 | 8.69 | 30.11 | 7.07 | 28.73 | 8.70 | 9.672 | 0.004 |
| PANSS total | 69.15 | 1.11 | 65.00 | 18.40 | 61.38 | 17.76 | 60.65 | 18.73 | 3.234 | 0.081 |
| HRSD-21 | 4.87 | 3.56 | 5.62 | 1.92 | 6.12 | 4.97 | 6.80 | 5.30 | 0.835 | 0.369 |
APD: Antipsychotic drug; SD: Standard Deviation; PANSS: Positive and Negative Symptoms Scale; HRSD-21: Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, 21 items