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Table 3 Associations between relapse at first year (relapse vs no relapse) and demographic, clinical and functioning status at baseline and 1-month follow-up, adjusted for age, gender, educational level

From: Don’t blame psychosis, blame the lack of services: a message for early intervention from the Greek standard care model

Patients with 1 year service engagement

Demographics and Diagnosis

Not-relapsed

Relapsed

P

N = 68

N = 19

Age of onset according to dup

N = 62

N = 19

 

 Median (Q1—Q3)

23.0 (21.0–31.0)

21.0 (18.0–28.0)

0.276†

Gender, n (%)

N = 68

N = 19

 

 Male

41 (60.3%)

12 (63.2%)

0.821‡

 Female

27 (39.7%)

7 (36.8%)

Education years

N = 67

N = 18

 

 Mean (SD)

13.9 (2.2)

13.1 (2.3)

0.164₸

Diagnosis, n (%)

N = 67

N = 19

 

 Non-Affective Psychosis

56 (83.6%)

16 (84.2%)

0.731‡

 Affective Psychosis

9 (13.4%)

3 (15.8%)

 Drug-Induced Psychosis

2 (3.0%)

0 (0.0%)

Full scale IQ

N = 62

N = 17

 

 Mean (SD)

92.2 (13.5)

93.7 (11.2)

0.679₸

Length of admission in days

N = 57

N = 17

 

 Median (Q1—Q3)

34.0 (26.0–41.0)

29.0 (20.0–45.0)

0.782†

Type of hospitalization, n (%)

N = 68

N = 19

 

 Voluntary hospitalization

33 (48.5%)

12 (63.2%)

0.507‡

 Unvoluntary hospitalization

27 (39.7%)

5 (26.3%)

 Outpatient

8 (11.8%)

2 (10.5%)

Adherrence in medication

N = 47

N = 14

 

 No

4 (8.5%)

9 (64.3%)

 < 0.001

 Yes

43 (91.5%)

5 (35.7%)

Lifetime most cannabis use

N = 66

N = 19

 

 Less than one a week

50 (75.8%)

12 (63.2%)

0.276‡

 Once and more a week

16 (24.2%)

7 (36.8%)

PANSS entrance positive symptoms, total scores

N = 68

N = 19

 

 Mean (SD)

29.1 (6.5)

29.6 (7.3)

0.749₸

PANSS entrance negative symptoms, total scores

N = 68

N = 19

 

 Mean (SD)

20.9 (8.0)

19.6 (6.9)

0.524₸

PANSS entrance general symptoms, total scores

N = 68

N = 19

 

 Median (Q1—Q3)

50.0 (42.5–57.0)

50.0 (43.0–57.0)

0.727†

PANSS entrance total

N = 68

N = 19

 

 Median (Q1—Q3)

99.5 (88.5–114.5)

98.0 (86.0–110.0)

0.615†

PANSS month positive symptoms, total scores

N = 68

N = 19

 

 Median (Q1—Q3)

13.0 (10.0–15.5)

12.0 (10.0–18.0)

0.516†

PANSS month negative symptoms, total scores

N = 68

N = 19

 

 Median (Q1—Q3)

13.0 (8.5–19.0)

13.0 (9.0–18.0)

0.984†

PANSS month general symptoms, total scores

N = 68

N = 19

 

 Median (Q1—Q3)

28.5 (23.0–34.0)

30.0 (24.0–35.0)

0.419†

PANSS month total

N = 68

N = 19

 

 Median (Q1—Q3)

52.5 (45.0–67.5)

56.0 (45.0–71.0)

0.565†

Nottingham DUP (in weeks)

N = 66

N = 19

 

 Median (Q1—Q3)

9.5 (4.0–28.0)

10.0 (4.0–29.0)

0.958†

GAF entrance

N = 63

N = 19

 

 Median (Q1—Q3)

40.0 (30.0–55.0)

45.0 (35.0–51.0)

0.223†

GAF month

N = 61

N = 19

 

 Mean (SD)

60.6 (14.2)

60.6 (13.2)

0.984₸

PAS Academic

N = 62

N = 18

 

 Median (Q1—Q3)

0.2 (0.1–0.3)

0.3 (0.1–0.5)

0.462†

PAS Social

N = 63

N = 17

 

 Median (Q1—Q3)

0.2 (0.1–0.4)

0.2 (0.1–0.4)

0.548†

  1. CI Confidence interval, PANSS The Positive and Negative Symptom Scale, GAF The Global Assessment of Functioning scale, DUP Duration of Untreated Psychosis, PAS Premorbid Adjustment Scale
  2. Mann- Whitney test
  3. Pearson’s chi-square test
  4. Two-sample t-test with equal variances