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Table 1 Background variables of patients included in the study (n = 329#)

From: Previous hospital admissions and disease severity predict the use of antipsychotic combination treatment in patients with schizophrenia

 

Mean (S.D)

Median (min. - max.)

Age (years), (n = 329)

31.9 (9.6)

30 (17-60)

Age of psychosis onset (years) (n = 140)

23.8 (8.3)

22 (7-54)

Duration of untreated psychosis (weeks) (n = 142))

134 (182)

76 (0-1040)

GAF-Symptom (n = 329)

40.0 (10.5)

38 (8-81)

GAF-Function (n = 329)

41.0 (9.5)

40 (21-81)

PANSS-positive (n = 305)

16.3 (5.9)

16 (7-32)

PANSS-negative (n = 307)

17.0 (6.6)

16 (7-43)

PANSS-general(n = 304)

33.3 (8.7)

33 (16-69)

PANSS-total (n = 302)

66.7(7.0)

67 (30-144)

Previous hospital admissions (n = 329)

3.5(5.3)

2 (0-40)

  1. S.D.; standard deviation, GAF; Global Assessment of Functioning PANSS, Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale,
  2. # A total of 329 patients, 213 (64.7%) men and 116 (35.3%) women, with schizophrenia were included. Among these 261 (79.3%) patients fulfilled the DSM-IV (16) criteria for the paranoid type of schizophrenia, 40 (12.2%) patients undifferentiated type, 16 (4.9%) disorganized type, 11(3.3%) residual type and 1 (0.3%) catatonic type.