Table 1.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of the subject sample.
| Young Control (n=10) |
Young Schizophrenia (n=12) |
Old Control (n=18) |
Old Schizophrenia (n=18) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age years | 22.2±4.4 a | 23.5±3.2 a | 49.5±9.2 b | 49.4±9.6 b |
|
Gender (male/female) |
8/2 a | 9/3 a | 10/8 a | 15/3 a |
|
Ethnicity (NonWhite/White) |
1/9 a | 0/12 a | 4/14 a | 4/14 a |
| Education | 4.1±1.4 a,b | 3.4±0.8 b | 5.2±1.7 a | 3.9±1.4 b |
| Occupation | 4.9±1.6 a | 5.8±1.4 a | 3.4±0.8 b | 4.8±1.9 a |
|
Parental Education |
5.2±1.9 a | 4.3±1.9 a,b | 3.5±1.6 b | 3.3±1.0 b |
|
Parental Occupation |
2.6±0.8 b | 3.9±1.8 a,b | 4.3±1.5 a | 4.4±1.5 a |
| Factor 1 score | 23.9±9.2 a | 18.1±5.9 a,b | 21.9±5.9 a,b | 13.4±7.1 c |
|
Age Onset Psychosis years |
n/a | 20.6±3.6 a | n/a | 21.6±4.8 a |
|
Positive symptoms |
n/a | 5.4±3.0 a | n/a | 8.0±4.1 a |
|
Negative symptoms |
n/a | 7.5±2.9 a | n/a | 8.9±2.1 a |
In Fisher’s Least Significant Difference post-hoc comparisons, groups which do not have the same superscript letter are significantly different (p<0.05).