Table 1 Overview of demographic data, positive and negative symptoms, and cognitive scores of the study's participants who were included in the final data analysis. Inferential statistics (rightmost columns) refer to differences between patient group and control group. Groups did not differ in terms of age and education, but patients showed deficits in cognitive functions, as assessed by BACS.
Patients | Controls | Statistics | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean | SD | Mean | SD | t value | p value | |
Age (years) | 35.15 | 7.59 | 36.06 | 7.96 | – 0.61 | 0.55 |
Education (years) | 11 | 1.59 | 11.23 | 1.68 | 0.12 | 0.91 |
Chlorpromazine Eq. (daily dosage/mg) | 337.73 | 165.23 | – | – | – | – |
N | N | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gender (m/f) | 14/6 | 11/6 | – | – | ||
Handedness (r/l) | 18/2 | 15/2 | – | – | ||
Antipsychotic medications | 16 | – | – | – | ||
Co-medicationa | 4 | – | – | – | ||
BACS (T Score) | ||||||
Verbal memory | 44.1 | 12.47 | 52.53 | 10.77 | − 2.18 | 0.04* |
Digit | 44.05 | 10.76 | 49.0 | 9.42 | − 1.47 | 0.15 |
Motor | 43.5 | 10.68 | 50.52 | 9.81 | − 2.07 | 0.05 |
Fluency | 48.65 | 9.68 | 52.18 | 12.95 | − 0.94 | 0.35 |
Symbol coding | 42.4 | 9.39 | 48.53 | 13.38 | − 1.63 | 0.11 |
Tower of London | 51.05 | 7.71 | 53.18 | 6.15 | − 0.89 | 0.38 |
Composite T | 42.75 | 8.96 | 51.53 | 9.99 | − 2.81 | 0.01* |
Total score | 249.58 | 32.79 | 283.06 | 33.54 | − 2.79 | 0.01* |
PANSS | ||||||
Positive | 16.35 | 3.59 | – | – | – | – |
Negative | 18.05 | 5.12 | – | – | – | – |
General | 37.6 | 6.08 | – | – | – | – |
