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. 2011 Sep 12;39(1):168–178. doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbr107

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.