Table 1.

Clinical and sociodemographic data in the first-episode subgroups

	FE-SZ stable (n = 12)		FE-SZ bad outcome (n = 11)		ANOVA
	m	SD	m	SD	F	P
Age (years)	30.40	9.42	33.18	12.87	0.31	0.58
Education (years)	11.60	3.03	12.11	2.62	0.15	0.70
Education of parents (years)	12.67	3.46	13.29	4.50	0.10	0.76
Baseline PANSS positive score	10.83	3.93	8.82	2.52	2.10	0.16
Baseline PANSS negative core	15.33	6.11	11.09	3.18	4.24	0.052
Baseline PANSS gen. score	27.92	7.38	23.09	5.72	3.03	0.096
Maximal PANSS positive score	11.33	3.87	13.73	5.10	1.63	0.22
Maximal PANSS negative score	16.58	6.32	21.64	3.93	5.19	0.033
Maximal PANSS gen. sum score	28.42	6.91	48.91	12.84	23.28	<0.0005
Diff. PANSS positive score	0.50	1.24	4.91	4.97	8.88	0.007
Diff. PANSS negative score	1.25	1.60	10.55	3.08	84.68	<0.0005
Diff. PANSS gen. score	0.50	1.00	25.82	11.11	62.07	<0.0005
	FE-SZ stable		FE-SZ bad outcome		χ²	P
Gender (male/female), n	6/6		6/5		0.05	0.83

FE-SZ first-episode schizophrenic patients, Diff. difference, PANSS positive and negative syndrome scale, gen. general psychopathology, n sample size, m mean, SD standard deviation, ANOVA analysis of variance, FF-statistics, P probability, χ² Chi-Square-test