Table 1 Sociodemographic characteristics of individuals at clinical high-risk and healthy controls.

From: PSYSCAN multi-centre study: baseline characteristics and clinical outcomes of the clinical high risk for psychosis sample

  

HC (N = 134)

CHR (N = 238)

p

Age, mean (SD)

 

23.7 (4.4)

22.4 (4.7)

0.005

Sex, n (%)

Female

54 (40.3)

110 (46.4)

0.303

Male

80 (59.7)

127 (53.6)

 
 

Missing

0

0

 

Ethnicity, n (%)

Asian Indian

8 (6.0)

8 (3.8)

0.163

Black

11 (8.2)

24 (10.1)

 

East Asian

31 (23.1)

39 (16.5)

 

Other

7 (5.2)

24 (10.1)

 

White

77 (57.4)

142 (59.9)

 
 

Missing

0 (0)

1 (0.4)

 

Relationship status, n (%)

In a relationship

55 (43.0)

54 (23.7)

0.001

Other

2 (1.6)

2 (0.9)

 

Single/divorced/separated

71 (55.5)

172 (75.4)

 
 

Missing

6 (4.5)

10 (4.2)

 

Current living conditions, n (%)

Living alone

18 (13.7)

25 (10.7)

0.167

Living with family/partner/friends/other

112 (85.5)

199 (85.4)

 

Other

1 (0.8)

9 (3.9)

 
 

Missing

3 (2.2)

5 (2.1)

 

Education (years), mean (SD)

15.9 (3.1)

14.1 (3.3)

<0.001

 

Missing

0

0

 

Student, n (%)

No

46 (35.9)

120 (51.3)

0.011

Yes, full time

71 (55.5)

92 (39.3)

 

Yes, part time

11 (8.6)

22 (9.4)

 
 

Missing

6 (4.5)

4 (1.7)

 

Current employment, n (%)

Employed full-time

29 (26.6)

32 (15.9)

<0.001

Employed part-time

55 (50.5)

68 (33.8)

 

Unemployed

25 (22.9)

101 (50.2)

 
 

Missing

25 (18.7)

37 (15.5)

 

Father - years of education, mean (SD)

14.8 (4.1)

14.3 (4.0)

0.301

  

Missing

  

79

  

Mother - years of education, mean (SD)

15.0 (3.8)

14.2 (4.2)

0.104

  

Missing

  

68

  

IQ, mean (SD)

112.6 (15.7)

105.0 (17.8)

<0.001

  

Missing

  

38

  
  1. CHR clinical high risk for psychosis; HC healthy controls; IQ intelligence quotient; SD standard deviation. Independent samples t-tests and Chi-square tests were used to compare CHR and HC on continuous and categorical variables, respectively.
  2. Statistically significant comparisons are shown in bold.