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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 28.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Psychol Sci. 2014 Apr 9;2(6):661–674. doi: 10.1177/2167702614527580

Table 1.

Demographic variables, current mood state, and clinical and health characteristics of study participants

Psychotic BD (n = 25)
Non-psychotic BD (n = 16)
HC (n = 20)
Group Difference
M SD M SD M SD F or X2 statistics p-value
Demographic variables
 Age 39.48a 11.31 44.63a 7.56 37.10b 13.23 F(2, 58) = 2.07 .07
 Gender (n = females) 15a 9a 10a χ2(2) = .45 .80
 Education (years) 16.00a 2.11 14.87a 1.92 16.35a 2.68 F(2, 56) = 1.93 .16
 Parental education (years) 14.68a 2.94 15.31a 2.80 15.85a 3.22 F(2, 58) = .85 .43

Current mood state
 Beck Depression Inventory 7.71a 6.38 13.47b 6.79 .55c 1.23 F(2, 56) = 25.50 < .001
 Altman Self-Rating Mania Scale 4.41a 3.94 2.93a 2.74 1.20b 1.96 F(2, 54) = 5.79 < .01
 Mood based subgroups (n)
  Euthymic 11a 7a 20b χ2(2) = 15.45 < .001
  Depressed 3a 7b 0c χ2(2) = 13.28 = .001
  Hypomanic/Manic 9a 2a 0b χ2(2) = 11.72 < .01
  Mixed 1a 1a 0a χ2(2) = 1.24 .54
  Missing 3a 1a 0a χ2(2) = 2.62 .27

Clinical and health characteristics
 Substance abuse/dependence (n)
  Past diagnosis 13a 7a 1b χ2(2) = 12.58 < .01
  Current diagnosis 6a 6a 0b χ2(2) = 9.01 < .05
 Smoking status (n = smokers) 2a 3a 1a χ2(2) = 2.26 .32
 Age at onset of BD 17.32a 7.72 18.13a 7.37 NA F(1, 39) = .11 .74
 Illness duration 22.16a 14.17 26.50a 9.00 NA F(1, 39) = 1.19 .28
 Comorbidity (n) 9a 5a NA χ2(1) = .07 .79
 Medication use (n) 21a 16a NA χ2(1) = 2.84 .09
 Psychotic experiences (n)
  None 0 16 NA
  During depressed episode 1 0 NA
  During mania episode 12 0 NA
  During mixed episode 9 0 NA
  Uncertain when it happened 3 0 NA

Note. Numbers that share subscripts are not significantly different from one another.