Research Article

Gender Differences in Remission and Recovery of Schizophrenic and Schizoaffective Patients: Preliminary Results of a Prospective Cohort Study

Table 1

Clinical remission and recovery criteria.

PsychopathologyFunctioningSubjective wellbeing

Clinical remission criteria
Andreasen’s criteriaScore ≤3 in items P1, P2, P3, N1, N4, N6, G5, G9 of PANSS
CGI-SCH criteriaOverall score ≤3 at the CGI-SCH
Andreasen’s criteria + CGI-SCH criteriaScore ≤3 in items P1, P2, P3, N1, N4, N6, G5, G9 of PANSS, overall score ≤3 at the CGI-SCH
Extended PANSS criteriaScore ≤3 at each one item of the Positive and Negative Scale of PANSS
Overall PANSS criteriaScore ≤3 at all the items of PANSS

Recovery criteria
Clinical + functional + subjective wellbeing remissionScore ≤3 in items P1, P2, P3, N1, N4, N6, G5, G9 of PANSSScore ≥70 at PSP ScaleScore ≥80 at SWN Scale
Clinical + functional remissionScore ≤3 in items P1, P2, P3, N1, N4, N6, G5, G9 of PANSSScore ≥70 at PSP Scale
Clinical + subjective wellbeing remissionScore ≤3 in items P1, P2, P3, N1, N4, N6, G5, G9 of PANSSScore ≥80 at SWN Scale