Table 2 Characteristics of schizophrenia patients

Number of patients

110

51

Age (mean, SD)

36 (10.3)

40 (10.0)

0.013

Age of onset (median, range)

20 (12–39)

25 (13–48)

0.057

Psychiatric hospital admissions (median, range)

6 (1–24)

4 (0–20)

0.091

Suicide attempts (median, range)

0 (0–6)

0 (0–5)

0.674

Years of evolution of disease (median, range)

13 (0–45)

11 (0–49)

0.578

Marital status (N, percentage)

 Single

95 (87%)

32 (62%)

0.002

 Married or paired

7 (6%)

12 (23%)

 Separated or divorced

8 (7%)

5 (11%)

 Widowed

0 (0%)

2 (4%)

Drug abuse (N, percentage)

81 (74%)

33 (65%)

0.246