Research Article
“Sometimes It’s Difficult to Have a Normal Life”: Results from a Qualitative Study Exploring Caregiver Burden in Schizophrenia
Table 1
Persons with schizophrenia and demographic and clinical characteristics
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| | Demographic characteristic | Person with schizophrenia () |
| | Age | | | Mean (range) | 51.84 (21–82) | | Gender (%) | | | Male | 7 (37) | | Female | 12 (63) | | Ethnicity (%) | | | Black/African American | 12 (63) | | Hispanic/Spanish American/Latin (of any race) | 1 (5) | | White/Caucasian | 6 (32) | | Years since diagnosis | | | Mean (range) | 16 (3–42) | | Schizophrenia subtype (%) | | | Paranoid | 10 (53) | | Disorganised | 4 (21) | | Undifferentiated | 2 (11) | | Catatonic | 2 (11) | | Paranoid, disorganized | 1 (5) | | Schizophrenia severity (%) | | | CGI-S score 4 | 9 (47) | | CGI-S score 5 | 5 (26) | | CGI-S score 6 | 5 (26) | | Medication (%) | | | Typical antipsychotics | | | Haloperidol | 5 (26) | | Chlorpromazine | 3 (16) | | Atypical antipsychotics | 11 (58) | | Aripiprazole | 4 (21) | | Risperidone | 5 (26) | | Olanzapine | 3 (16) | | Quetiapine | 0 (0) | | Olanzapine/fluoxetine | 1 (5) | | Ziprasidone | 2 (11) | | Other | 6 (32) | | People with schizophrenia on both typical and atypical treatments | 5 (26) |
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