Diagnostic Prediction for Social Anxiety Disorder via Multivariate Pattern Analysis of the Regional Homogeneity

Table 1

Demographic and clinical characteristics of SAD patients and healthy comparison subjects.

Demographic and clinical characteristics	SAD ()		HC ()
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Age (years)	25.95	6.48	24.80	3.35	0.323
Duration of illness (years)	7.76	4.61
Age of onset (years)	18.15	6.70
LSAS
Total	65.42	21.23	33.80	22.01	0.000
Fear factor	32.45	10.39	15.70	11.90	0.000
Avoidance factor	32.47	11.91	17.85	11.34	0.000
		%		%
Gender
Female	14	35	14	35	1.000
Male	26	65	26	65

SAD, social anxiety disorder; HC, healthy controls; SD, standard deviation; LSAS, Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale; /, number.
Significance levels were set at .