TABLE 2.
Patient Clinical Measures
| Variable | Men (N=18)
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Women (N=12)
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |
| Age | 38.6 | 10.4 | 36.0 | 9.2 |
| Age at onset | 20.1 | 3.8 | 20.4 | 8.2 |
| Duration of illness | 18.5 | 9.7 | 15.6 | 6.7 |
| Antipsychotic dosage (chlorpromazine equivalents)a | 433 | 319 | 395 | 458 |
| Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale score | 31.5 | 11.3 | 31.0 | 8.6 |
| Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms | ||||
| Total (items 1–22) | 33.8 | 27.8 | 30.3 | 17.7 |
| Affect (items 1–8) | 8.6 | 8.2 | 5.5 | 5.6 |
| Alogia (items 9–13) | 3.6 | 6.0 | 2.8 | 2.9 |
| Avolition (items 14–17) | 5.7 | 5.2 | 5.3 | 4.4 |
| Anhedonia (items 18–22) | 8.9 | 6.7 | 8.2 | 6.7 |
| Attention (items 23–25) | 2.6 | 4.9 | 2.6 | 2.8 |
| Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms | ||||
| Total (items 1–34) | 18.4 | 21.8 | 13.1 | 11.6 |
| Hallucination items (1–7) | 4.4 | 6.5 | 7.0 | 6.8 |
| Delusion items (8–20) | 9.7 | 11.3 | 4.2 | 6.5 |
| Bizarre behavior items (21–25) | 1.4 | 2.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Formal thought disorder items (26–34) | 2.9 | 7.4 | 1.9 | 4.0 |
a
Two male patients and two female patients were unmedicated.