Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of the participants in the current study.

From: Abnormal cortical topographic patterns associated with auditory verbal hallucination in first-episode schizophrenia

Characteristics

AVH (n = 64)

NAVH (n = 40)

HC (n = 90)

F/t/X2

p value

Gender (male/female)

32/32

20/20

44/46

0.02

0.98

Age, years (SD)

23.36 (8.30)

23.70 (7.04)

22.70 (6.15)

0.33

0.72

Education, years (SD)

11.73 (3.52)

12.45 (2.81)

12.76 (2.50)

2.23

0.11

Illness Duration, month (SD)

15.03 (23.48)

13.33 (23.88)

-

0.35

0.73

GAF

29.60 (12.03)

31.64 (11.27)

-

-0.85

0.40

PANSS

 PANSS total (SD)

91.72 (19.53)

84.05 (16.28)

-

2.07

0.04

 PANSS positive (SD)

25.53 (5.48)

20.70 (5.81)

-

4.27

<0.01

 PANSS negative (SD)

19.94 (9.46)

17.56 (7.06)

-

1.47

0.15

 PANSS general (SD)

46.25 (9.60)

45.80 (9.61)

-

0.23

0.82

 PANSS Hallucination P3 (SD)

4.86 (1.08)

1.28 (0.45)

-

23.43

<0.01

 PANSS positive minus P3 (SD)

20.67 (5.13)

19.43 (5.73)

-

1.15

0.25

 PANSS total minus P3 (SD)

86.86 (19.27)

82.78 (16.16)

-

1.12

0.27

  1. AVH schizophrenia patients with auditory verbal hallucination, NAVH schizophrenia patients without auditory verbal hallucination, HC healthy control, SD standard deviation, GAF global assessment of functioning, PANSS positive and negative symptom scale. Significant results (p < 0.05) were indicated in bold.