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

Table 2

Sociodemographic characteristics of the sample according to gender.

	Males	Females	Statistics		df	𝑃 value
			𝑡 value	𝜒^2 test
Age (mean years ± sd)	42.49±7.751	44.70±11.765	−0.947		98	0,350
Education (mean years ± sd)	10.37±3.800	12.00±4.235	−1.897		98	0,061
Marital status				13.280	2	0,001
Married (𝑁, %)	5 (7.1)	6 (20.0)
Separated (𝑁, %)	1 (1.4)	5 (16.7)
Widowed (𝑁, %)	—	—
Single (𝑁, %)	64 (91.4)	19 (63, 3)
Employment status				8.914	5	0,113
Employed	17 (24.33)	4 (13, 3)
Housewives	—	2 (6.7)
Students	2 (2.9)	2 (6.7)
Retired	9 (12.9)	7 (23.3)
Disability pension	32 (45.7)	10 (33.3)
Unemployed	10 (14.3)	5 (16.7)