Table 1.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of male and female patients.

	Male (N = 60)	Female (N = 27)	Statistics
Demographic characteristics
Mean age	15.0 ± 1.46	14.78 ± 1.69	t = 0.59, df = 44, p = ns
Mean number of years of education	7.98 ± 1.74	8.77 ± 1.36	t = 2.09, df = 85, p = 0.04
Psychiatric history
Mean duration of illness (years)	1.31 ± 1.42	0.76 ± 0.73	t = 1.8, df = 85, p = 0.05
Mean age of illness onset	13.69 ± 2.11	14.01 ± 1.63	t = 0.77, df = 63, ns
First psychotic episode	78.3% (n = 47)	96.3% (n = 26)	X 2 = 4.45 , df = 1, p = 0.03