Table 1.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of 32 bipolar and 28 schizoaffective disorder patients
| Demographic and clinical variables | Bipolar disorder patients (n = 32) | schizoaffective patients (n = 28) |
ANOVA | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | F | df | P | |
| Age | 48.0 | 14.92 | 45.61 | 10.5 | 0.5 | 1; 58 | 0.48 |
| YMRS score | 2.34 | 2.67 | 7.63 | 6.37 | 18.29 | 1; 57 | < 0.01 |
| HAMD score | 4.5 | 2.81 | |||||
| MADRS score | 10.87 | 8.01 | |||||
| Years since having a pychiatric diagnosis | 11.56 | 9.61 | 21.39 | 11.34 | 12.04 | 1; 53 | < 0.01 |
| MWT-B score | 114.69 | 15.54 | 104.64 | 16.13 | 5.98 | 1; 58 | 0.02 |
| n | % | n | % | χ2 | df | P | |
| Sex | |||||||
| Male | 13 | 40.6 | 7 | 25 | 1.64 | 1 | 0.2 |
| Female | 19 | 59.4 | 21 | 75 | |||
| Education: | |||||||
| No school | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7.7 | 2.55 | 1 | 0.11 |
| Only school | 6 | 18.8 | 5 | 19.2 | 0.002 | 1 | 0.96 |
| School and futher education | 17 | 53.1 | 14 | 53.8 | 0.003 | 1 | 0.96 |
| Highschool | 9 | 28.1 | 5 | 19.2 | 0.62 | 1 | 0.43 |
| Current mediacation: | |||||||
| AD only | 2 | 6.3 | 0 | 0 | 1.75 | 1 | 0.19 |
| MS only | 3 | 9.4 | 7 | 25.9 | 2.85 | 1 | 0.09 |
| NL only | 6 | 18.8 | 0 | 0 | 5.83 | 1 | 0.02 |
| AD & MS | 11 | 34.4 | 3 | 11.1 | 4.38 | 1 | 0.04 |
| AD & NL | 7 | 21.9 | 4 | 14.8 | 0.48 | 1 | 0.49 |
| MS & NL | 16 | 50 | 16 | 59.3 | 0.51 | 1 | 0.48 |
| All | 7 | 21.9 | 2 | 7.4 | 2.37 | 1 | 0.12 |
| Neither | 1 | 3.1 | 2 | 7.4 | 0.56 | 1 | 0.46 |
| Last episode: | |||||||
| Maniac | 18 | 56.3 | 16 | 57.1 | 0.01 | 1 | 0.94 |
| Depressiv | 11 | 34.3 | 4 | 14.3 | 3.21 | 1 | 0.07 |
| Mixed | 3 | 9.4 | 5 | 17.9 | 0.93 | 1 | 0.34 |
ANOVA = Analysis of Variance; YMRS = Young Mania Rating Scale; HAMD = Hamilton Depression Rating Scale; MWT-B = Estimated premorbid intelligence; AD = Antidepressants; MS = mood stabilizer; NL = Antipsychotics