Table 1.
Mean SAPS Global Item Score for Each Subject was the Average of SAPS Global Item Scores for Hallucinations, Delusions, Bizarre Behavior, and Positive Formal Thought Disorder. Mean SANS Global Item Score for Each Subject was the Average of Affective Flattening or Blunting, Alogia, Avolition/Apathy, Anhedonia-Asociality, and Attention. Disorganization Symptoms Were the Sum of Global Scores for Bizarre Behavior, Positive Formal Thought Disorder, and Attention. Poverty Symptoms Were the Sum of Affective Flattening, Alogia, Avolition/Apathy, and Anhedonia-Asociality. Reality Distortion Symptoms Were the Sum of Hallucinations and Delusions
Clinical and Demographic Characteristics | ||||||
Characteristic | Controls | Patients | Significance | |||
M | SD | M | SD | T Value/Chi-Square | P Value (2-tailed) | |
Age (in years) | 37.18 | 7.59 | 36.39 | 9.54 | 0.31 | .759 |
Gender (% male) | 0.74 | 0.78 | 0.34 | .737 | ||
Paternal education (in years) | 12.70 | 1.46 | 13.26 | 2.61 | 0.90 | .370 |
Maternal education | 12.48 | 1.53 | 13.50 | 3.07 | 1.42 | .162 |
Paternal SES | 21.59 | 8.92 | 26.59 | 10.73 | 1.67 | .100 |
Maternal SES | 17.27 | 8.55 | 25.24 | 11.88 | 2.51 | .015 |
Participant’s education (in years) | 15.26 | 2.12 | 13.04 | 2.14 | 3.50 | .001 |
Handedness (% right) | 100.00 | 86.96 | 1.45 | .152 | ||
IQ verbal | 110.23 | 10.85 | 95.23 | 14.18 | 3.88 | .000 |
IQ performance | 115.45 | 11.64 | 101.82 | 15.24 | 3.30 | .002 |
Medication (CPZ equivalents) | 584.63 | 563.63 | ||||
Mean SAPS global item score | 0.02 | 0.11 | 1.91 | 1.21 | ||
Mean SANS global item score | 0.37 | 0.62 | 2.50 | 0.78 | ||
Disorganization | 0.78 | 1.17 | 5.48 | 2.71 | ||
Poverty | 1.13 | 2.39 | 10.43 | 3.53 | ||
Reality Disotortion | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.26 | 3.53 |
Note: SAPS, scale for assessment of positive symptoms; SANS, scale for the assessment of negative symptoms; CPZ, chlorpromazine; SES, socioeconomic status.