Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics

From: Anterior-posterior systematic deficits of cortical thickness in early-onset schizophrenia

Characteristic

TD

EOS

Group comparisons

Statistic values

P values

Demographic sample size

99

95

—

—

 Handedness (right/ left)

99/0

95/0

—

—

 Age range (years)

7–17 years old

—

—

 Sex (male/female)

38/61

36/59

0.005 a

0.94

 Age (years)

14.32 ± 2.08

14.61 ± 1.96

4381 b

0.41

 Global cortical thickness (mm)

2.62 ± 0.46

2.58 ± 0.45

2.41 c

0.02

Clinical sample size

—

71

—

—

 PANSS-T scores

—

65.20 ± 16.92

—

—

 PANSS-G scores

—

31.52 ± 8.45

—

—

 PANSS-P scores

—

15.37 ± 5.06

—

—

 PANSS-N scores

—

13.82 ± 5.51

—

—

  1. Note: Mean ± SD.
  2. TD typically developing controls, EOS early-onset schizophrenia patients, PANSS-T total scores of the positive and negative syndrome scale (PANSS), PANSS-G PANSS general scores, PANSS-P PANSS positive scores, PANSS-N PANSS negative scores.
  3. aThe χ2 value for gender distribution was obtained by chi-square test.
  4. bThe U values were obtained by Mann–Whitney test.
  5. cThe T values were obtained by two-sample t test.
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