Table 2.

Baseline Clinical and Sociodemographic Variables of the Study Sample

DSM-IV	Diagnosis	Total (N = 196)		COP (N = 100)		SUP (N = 96)
295.1	Disorganized schizophrenia	11.7%		11%		12.5%
295.2	Catatonic schizophrenia	1.5%		1%		2.1%
295.3	Paranoid schizophrenia	63.3%		67%		59.4%
295.6	Residual schizophrenia	9.2%		10%		8.3%
295.7	Schizoaffective disorder	8.7%		5%		12.5%
295.9	Undifferentiated schizophrenia	1%		1%		1%
297.1	Delusional disorder	0.5%		1%		0%
298.8	Brief psychotic disorder	2.6%		2%		3.1%
298.9	Unspecified psychosis	1.5%		2%		1%
		M	SD	M	SD	M	SD
Age at current hospitalization		33.6	11.3	33.3	10.3	34.0	12.2
Age of onset		27.7	9.3	28.5	8.8	27.0	9.8
Duration of illness (y)a		6.2	7.6	5.0	6.5	7.5	8.4
Number of previous hospitalizations		3.2	2.6	3.3	2.7	3.2	2.5
Cumulative duration of prior hospitalization (d)		181.8	222.7	181.2	229.2	182.4	216.9
Current duration of hospitalization before participation in groups (d)		40.7	30.7	36.6	27.5	44.9	33.3
Chlorpromazine-equivalents		277.3	290.6	245.0	260.7	308.5	315.1
Scale for Extrapyramidal Symptoms (EPS)		0.4	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4

Note: COP, coping-oriented program; SUP, supportive therapy program.

^a t(194) = −2.378, P = .018.