Table 2.

Socio-demographic characteristics of the 43 cases with psychotic symptoms and 43 'case controls.' Mean ± standard deviation and percentages and absolute numbers (in parenthesis) respectively are reported. P-values refer to group differences assessed by t-test/Wilcoxon test.

	Patients with psychotic symptoms			Matched controls			Sig.
	total	male	female	total	male	female	p
N	43	38	5	43	38	5	1.0
age	33.9 ± 10.5	34.6 ± 10.0	28.6 ± 13.8	34.7 ± 10.3	35.3 ± 10.0	30.4 ± 12.8	0.718
Education (yrs in school)	5.6 ± 4.5	6.4 ± 4.3	0.0	6.3 ± 4.9	7.1 ± 4.6	0.0	0.511
Martial status (% married)	16.3% (7)	18.4 % (7)	0 % (0)	44.2% (19)	50.0% (19)	0% (0)	0.005
Employed or at school	0% (0)	0% (0)	0% (0)	41.9% (18)	47.4% (18)	0% (0)	< 0.001