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. 2017 Nov 2;12(11):e0187141. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0187141

Table 4. Relationship between latent class trajectory, sociodemographic, clinical factors and functioning overtime.

Moderately stable vs High Deterioration vs High
  OR 95% CI p value OR 95% CI p value
Positive symptoms
Early response and stable Ref Ref
Delayed response 2.80 (1.9,4.12) <0.001 3.46 (1.53,7.84) 0.003
Negative symptoms
Early response and stable Ref Ref
Early response and relapse 4.57 (2.54,8.22) <0.001 3.41 (1.21,9.59) 0.020
Delayed response 2.42 (0.42,14.08) 0.324 9.18 (1.07,79.08) 0.044
Slower response and no response 1.00 (0.66,1.54) 0.987 0.84 (0.27,2.59) 0.762
General psychopathology symptoms
Early response and stable Ref Ref
Early response and relapse 22.02 (9.88,49.07) <0.001 227.21 (76.32,676.42) <0.001
Delayed response* . .
Slower response and no response 2.73 (1.78,4.17) <0.001 5.87 (1.82,18.96) 0.003
Age 0.99 (0.97,1.01) 0.258 0.98 (0.92,1.05) 0.571
Gender
Male vs Female 1.18 (0.93,1.51) 0.168 1.97 (0.96,4.07) 0.065
Marital status
Married vs. single 0.84 (0.58,1.21) 0.352 1.57 (0.54,4.57) 0.412
Separated/divorced vs. single 1.12 (0.62,2.04) 0.707 0.94 (0.1,8.69) 0.960
Employment status
Unemployed vs. Employed 1.36 (1.02,1.81) 0.038 1.63 (0.64,4.17) 0.305
Economically inactive vs. Employed 0.83 (0.58,1.17) 0.282 1.12 (0.39,3.23) 0.838
Ethnicity
Malay vs. Chinese 0.92 (0.66,1.29) 0.638 1.63 (0.69,3.87) 0.268
Indian vs. Chinese 0.79 (0.49,1.28) 0.345 0.84 (0.25,2.9) 0.788
Others vs. Chinese 0.85 (0.39,1.83) 0.670 1.26 (0.21,7.4) 0.799
Education
Primary vs. Tertiary 1.14 (0.8,1.64) 0.465 1.23 (0.49,3.09) 0.665
Secondary vs. Tertiary 1.26 (0.97,1.63) 0.078 0.93 (0.44,1.97) 0.854
DUP symptoms 1.01 (1,1.01) 0.028 1.01 (1,1.02) 0.140
SCID Diagnoses
Affective psychosis vs. Schizophrenia spectrum & delusional disorder 0.82 (0.53,1.27) 0.375 0.48 (0.1,2.36) 0.370
Brief psychotic disorder & psychotic disorder NOS vs. Schizophrenia spectrum & delusional disorder 0.69 (0.49,0.98) 0.037 0.77 (0.25,2.38) 0.651

Note: High functioning is reference group.

* = Parameter estimates were not estimated due to low number