Putative co-variables of diagnostic stability | Value | Number● | 25–75% Percentiles |
---|---|---|---|
Alcohol or drug addiction ever present | Yes | 70% | |
Clinical Global Impression Scale (CGI)▲ | 5–7 | 50% | |
Civil status, (i.e. ever married) | Yes | 69% | |
Employment at onset | Yes | 66% | |
Global Assessments of Functioning (GAF)▲▲ | Score | 40 | (35–45) |
Poor premorbid social or work adjustment | Yes | 71% | |
Somatic co-morbidity (any somatic illness ever present) | Yes | 43% | |
Treatment response on antipsychotics | Yes | 95% | |
Putative predictors of diagnostic stability | |||
Age of first admission | Year | 25 | (20–32) |
Age of onset | Year | 21 | (17–30) |
Duration of first admission | Days | 37 | (8–69) |
Duration of hospitalisation first year of admission | Days | 107 | (50–295) |
Family history of psychiatric disease | Yes | 81% | |
First diagnosis ICD-10 schizophrenia | Yes | 23% | |
First diagnosis ICD-10 schizophrenia spectrum disorder | Yes | 53% | |
Gender | Men | 63% | |
Sct. Louis Criteria for Schizophrenia▲▲▲ | Yes | 45% | |
Year of birth | Year | 1962 | (1954–1970) |
Measures of hospitalisation events | |||
Number of hospitalisations | (#) | 14 | (8–26) |
Total duration of hospitalisation | Years | 3,4 | (1,7–6,0) |
Total duration of illness | Years | 17 | (8–24) |
Year of first admission | Year | 1989 | (1982–1999) |
Measures of diagnostic stability | |||
Numbers-of-diagnostic-shifts | (#) | 3 | (1–6) |
Numbers-of-diagnostic-spectrum-shifts● | (#) | 1 | (0–4) |
Diagnostic-complexity (numbers-of-unique-diagnoses multiplied with numbers-of-diagnostic-shifts)●● | (#) | 8 | (2–22,5) |
Spectrum-complexity (numbers-of-unique-spectrum-diagnoses multiplied with numbers-of-diagnostic-spectrum shifts)●●● | (#) | 2 | (0–9) |