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

Table 3

Course of illness according to gender.

Course of illness	Males	Females	𝜒^2 test	df	𝑃 value
Episodic with full remissions (𝑛, %)	11 (16.2)	7 (23.3)	3.990	3	0.262
Episodic with residual symptoms (𝑛, %)	14 (20.6)	3 (10.0)
Continuous (𝑛, %)	39 (57.4)	20 (66.7)
Undefined (𝑛, %)	4 (5.9)	—