Table 2. Demographic and clinical features of schizophrenia patients who had completed 3-months follow-up (n = 423).
| Groupsa Parameters | Patients with low severity (LSG) (n = 193; 45.6%) | Patients with high severity (HSG) (n = 230; 54.4%) | |||||||
| CR n (%) | IR n (%) | OR (95% CI) | P-valued | CR n (%) | IR n (%) | OR (95%CI) | P-valued | ||
| Gender | Male | 80 (56.4) | 30 (58.8) | 0.9 (0.45–1.81) | 0.76 | 40 (58.8) | 103 (63.6) | 0.82 (0.44–1.53) | 0.5 |
| Female | 62 (44.6) | 21 (41.2) | 28 (41.2) | 59 (36.4) | |||||
| Age (mean±SD) yrs | 29.9±7.7 | 28.8±7.7 | – | 0.38e | 28.68±6.1 | 29.39±7.1 | – | 0.48e | |
| Age at onsetb | Early | 84 (59.1) | 30 (60.0) | 0.97 (0.47–1.95) | 0.92 | 41 (60.3) | 100 (61.7) | 0.94 (0.51–1.76) | 0.84 |
| Late | 58 (40.9) | 20 (40.0) | 27 (39.7) | 62 (38.3) | |||||
| Duration of illnessc | Short | 95 (67.9) | 29 (59.2) | 1.45 (0.70–3.0) | 0.27 | 46 (70.8) | 86 (53.4) | 2.11 (1.09–4.15) | 0.02 |
| Long | 45 (32.1) | 20 (40.8) | 19 (29.2) | 75 (46.6) | |||||
| Drug | typical+multi | 19 (13.0) | 5 (9.8) | 1.42 (0.47–5.14) | 0.51 | 10 (14.7) | 34 (20.4) | 0.64 (0.26–1.46) | 0.26 |
| atypical | 123 (87.0) | 46 (90.2) | 58(85.3) | 128 (79.6) | |||||
Footnote: LSG, Low Severity Group; HSG, High Severity Group; CR, Complete Responders; IR, Incomplete Responders; SD, Standard deviation; OR, Odds ratio; CI, Confidence interval.
a
Low severity ≤3 CGI-S and High severity ≥4 CGI-S.
b
early onset <25 yrs; late onset ≥25 yrs,
c
short duration <4 yrs; long duration ≥4yrs.
d
P-values were calculated by using Pearson’s χ2-test and eP-values were calculated by using two-tailed Student’s t-test.