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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neuropsychopharmacology. 2011 Feb 23;36(6):1289–1295. doi: 10.1038/npp.2011.14

Table 1.

Discrete Statistics, Mean (SD) or count (%) for the comparison of baseline clinical and demographic data for placebo and pimozide treated groups.

Variable Treatment
p-value
Placebo (N = 28) Mean (SD) Pimozide (N = 25) Mean (SD)

Age (Years) 44.4 (8.7) 45.5 (10.2) .66

Education (Years) 11.8 (2.1) 11.2 (2.3) .38

Age of Illness Onset (Years) 18.5 (4.6) 19.2 (4.2) .58

Clozapine Dose (mg/day) 478.1 (150.2) 518.8 (117.3) .30

Plasma Clozapine Concentration (ng/ml) 555.5 (147.7) 558.1 (152.5) .95

Duration of Clozapine Treatment (Months) 20.8 (25.2) 16.8 (14.7) .53

PANSS Total 90.7 (16.0) 82.9 (15.1) .08

PANSS Positive 22.3 (4.9) 21.0 (4.9) .36

PANSS Negative 24.6 (6.4) 21.9 (4.4) .08

PANSS General 44.0 (8.1) 40.0 (9.0) .11

SLOF Physical Functioning 24.77 (.81) 24.36 (.99) .11

SLOF Personal Care 30.81 (2.56) 30.28 (4.67) .61

SLOF Interpersonal Relationships 22 (5.62) 24.56 (4.19) .07

SLOF Social Acceptability 32.85 (2.49) 32.48 (3.14) .64

SLOF Activities 39 (12) 38.92 (10.48) .97

SLOF Work Skills 17.08 (6.35) 17.36 (5.05) .86

Variable Count (%) Count (%) p-value

    Gender
Female 8 (29%) 4 (16%) .34
Male 20 (71%) 21 (84%)

   Ethnicity
Asian 1 (4%) 0 (0%) .04
Black 4 (14%) 13 (52%)
Hispanic 6 (12%) 5 (20%)
White 17 (61%) 7 (28%)

  Treatment Setting
Inpatient 19(68%) 15(60%) .47
Outpatient 9(32%) 10(40%)

 Valproic Acid Treatment
No 18 (64%) 17 (68%) .96
Yes 10 (36%) 8 (32%)