Research Article
Gender Differences in Service Use in a Sample of People with Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses
Table 1
Frequence of attended diagnosis by gender.
| | Female | Male | Total | P value† |
| | Schizophrenia (whole sample) | 1140 (31.76) | 2449 (68.24) | 3589 | <0.001 | | Subtypes | | | | | | Paranoid | 695 (32.1) | 1469 (67.9) | 2164 | <0.001 | | Disorganized | 51 (30.2) | 118 (69.8) | 169 | <0.001 | | Catatonic | 8 (53.3) | 7 (46.7) | 15 | 0.9 | | Undifferentiated | 108 (35.9) | 193 (64.1) | 301 | <0.001 | | Residual | 278 (29.6) | 662 (70.4) | 940 | <0.001 | | Schizophreniform disorder | 86 (37.1) | 146 (62.9) | 232 | <0.001 | | Schizoaffective disorder | 438 (59.7) | 296 (40.3) | 734 | <0.001 | | Delusional disorder | 619 (59.1) | 428 (40.9) | 1047 | <0.001 | | Other psychoses nonorganic | 53 (48.6) | 56 (51.4) | 109 | 0.848 | | Brief psychosis | 115 (51.8) | 107 (48.2) | 222 | 0.6385 | | Shared psychotic disorder | 10 (76.9) | 3 (23.1) | 13 | 0.0961 | | Psychotic disorder medical cond. | 15 (48.4) | 16 (51.6) | 31 | 0.9 | | Substance-induced psychosis | 2 (4.2) | 45 (95.8) | 47 | <0.001 | | Psychotic disorder NOS | 659 (45.2) | 800 (54.8) | 1459 | <0.001 |
| | Total | 3137 (41.9) | 4346 (58.1) | 7483 | <0.001 |
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n (%) Chi-square test.
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