Table 1.

Select Demographic and Clinical Sample Characteristics (n=180)

Continuous Variables	mean	SD
Age	24.2	4.9
Age at onset of psychosis	21.2	5.3
Years of school completed	11.8	2.1
Categorical Variables	n	%
Ethnicity
African American	154	85.6%
Caucasian	15	8.3%
Other	7	3.9%
Asian	4	2.2%
Gender, male	135	75.0%
Marital status, single and never married	161	89.4%
Unemployed in the month prior to hospitalization	123	68.3%
Living with family members in the month prior to hospitalization	115	63.9%
History of incarceration (n=179)	102	57.0%
Living below the federal poverty level (n=149)	65	43.6%
First-degree family history of schizophrenia or psychosis (n=173)	34	19.7%
Mode of onset of psychosis (n=142)
Acute	58	40.8%
Subacute	20	14.1%
Chronic	64	45.1%