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Table 3 Bivariate analysis taking the hallucination and delusion scores as dependent variables

From: Decreased insight, but not self-stigma or belief about medicine, is associated with greater severity of delusions in a sample of long-stay patients with schizophrenia: a cross-sectional study

 

Auditory hallucinations

Delusions

 

Mean ± SD

Mean ± SD

Gender

  

 Male

20.20 ± 14.68

9.33 ± 9.00

 Female

17.59 ± 11.05

8.86 ± 8.03

p

0.363

0.806

Marital status

  

 Single/divorced/widowed

20.21 ± 13.14

9.57 ± 8.64

 Married

9.33 ± 8.91

5.44 ± 6.94

p

0.018

0.172

Education level

  

 Illiterate

22.20 ± 14.33

9.93 ± 8.76

 Primary

18.20 ± 12.50

10.40 ± 9.03

 Complementary

20.08 ± 12.48

9.65 ± 8.84

 Secondary

16.07 ± 14.05

7.50 ± 7.29

 University

8.66 ± 15.01

0.01 ± 0.01

p

0.453

0.342

Family history of psychiatric illness

  

 Yes

16.83 ± 12.88

8.08 ± 8.36

 No

19.93 ± 13.27

9.55 ± 8.63

p

0.335

0.482

Internalized stigma towards mental illness

  

 Low

16.15 ± 13.13

11.36 ± 8.54

 High

20.96 ± 12.96

7.61 ± 8.28

p

0.105

0.050