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Table 1 Sociodemographic and clinical variables of patients with psychosis and healthy controls

From: Theory of mind, emotion recognition, delusions and the quality of the therapeutic relationship in patients with psychosis – a secondary analysis of a randomized-controlled therapy trial

 

n(patients/ Controls)

Patients with psychosis (n = 185)

Healthy controls (n = 48)

Test statistics

n (%) / M (SD)

n (%)/ M (SD)

Age (ys.)

185/48

38.62 (9.78)

35.69 (9.44)

t(231) = 1.865, p = .063

Gender (fem.)

185/48

107 (57.84%)

20 (41.68%)

ap = 1.000

School education:

185/48

  

X2(4)=8.331, p = .080

 13 years

 

97 (52.43%)

24 (50%)

 

 10 years

 

56 (30.27%)

22 (45.83%)

 

 9 years

 

31 (16.76%)

2 (4.17%)

 

 Less than 9 years

 

1 (0.54%)

 

Verbal intelligence (MWT-B) b

176 / 46 b

107.48 (14.82)

114.52 ((15.36)

t(222) = −2.85, p = .005

Duration of illness

185

15.36 (9.63)

  

Theory of Mind (ToM) c

185/39 c

12.56 (1.74)

13.31 (1.00)

t(222) = −2.711, p = .007

ER total score

185/45d

23.31 (3.23)

24.8 (2.06)

t(228) = −2.954, p = .003

ER fear

185/45d

5.90 (1.43)

6.22 (0.90)

t(228) = − 1.456, p = .147

ER anger

185/45d

6.05 (1.19)

6.69 (0.56)

t(228) = −3.512, p = .001

ER sadness

185/45d

6.28 (1.15)

6.33 (1.09)

t(228) = −.275, p = .783

ER disgust

185/45d

5.09 (1.28)

5.56 (1.16)

t(228) = −2.247, p = .026

PANSS positive scale

185

17.71 (3.79)

  

PANSS negative scale

185

13.57 (4.17)

  

PANSS general psychopathology scale

185

32.62 (7.27)

  

PANSS P1 delusions in general

185

4.44 (1.02)

  

PANSS P6 delusions of persecution

185

3.37 (1.57)

  

PSYRATS delusional frequency

185

8.76 (3.56)

  

PSYRATS delusional distress

185

5.1 (2.46)

  

TSQ therapy alliance (therapist)

174 d

1.09 (.65

  

TSQ interactional difficulties (therapist)

174 d

−.50 (1.23)

  

PSQ therapy alliance (patient)sessions 1–5

174 d

1.72 (.62)

  
  1. Notes: a Fishers Exact Test; bn = 9 patients did not perform in the MWT-B due to language problems and two controls due to organisational problems, cn = 9 controls did not participate at the ToM assessment, dn = 3 controls did not participate at the ER assessment; ER: Emotion recognition; PANSS: Positive and Negative Syndrom Scale; PSYRATS: Psychotic Symptoms Rating Scale; TSQ therapy alliance = Therapist session questionnaire = quality of therapeutic relationship viewed by the therapist (mean score sessions1–5); TSQ interactional difficulties = Therapist Session Questionnaire rating of interactional difficulties rated by the therapist (mean score sessions 1–5), PSQ therapy alliance = Patient Session Questionnaire rating of the quality of the therapeutic relationship rated by the patient (mean score sessions 1–5); d TSQs were filled by 13 different therapists and 174 patients