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Table 1 Demographics of schizophrenic patients at baseline

From: Initial attitudes toward a drug predict medication adherence in first-episode patients with schizophrenia: a 1-year prospective study in China

 

Completed

Group

Discontinued

group

Statistics

 

(n = 96)

(n = 104)

(Z /X²)

P value

Sex (M/F)

39/53

55/43

3.579

0.059

Age (years) (Mean ± SD)

25.41 ± 7.283

26.42 ± 8.088

-0.825

0.410

Education (years) (Mean ± SD)

12.95 ± 2.500

12.50 ± 3.037

-0.615

0.539

CGI-S (Mean ± SD)

5.19 ± 1.251

5.50 ± 0.765

-1.544

0.123

PANSS-Positive (Mean ± SD)

23.22 ± 4.902

23.80 ± 6.282

-0.373

0.709

PANSS-Negative (Mean ± SD)

20.56 ± 7.089

20.51 ± 7.447

-0.446

0.656

PANSS-General psychopathology (Mean ± SD)

42.13 ± 7.417

40.46 ± 9.035

-1.695

0.090

PANSS-G12 (insight)

5.48 ± 1.026

5.51 ± 1.123

-0.420

0.675

PANSS total score (Mean ± SD)

84.77 ± 14.713

 

84.53 ± 16.255

-0.281

0.779

Personal and Social Performance Scale (PSP)

40.01 ± 12.360

40.81 ± 15.545

-0.373

0.709

Baseline DAI total scores

0.646 ± 5.039

-1.407 ± 4.964

-2.475

0.013

  1. Bold p-value indicates the result significant on the level of 0.05