Sex Differences in Severity, Social Functioning, Adherence to Treatment, and Cognition of Adolescents with Schizophrenia

Table 1

Demographic and clinical characteristics of male and female patients.

	Male ()	Female ()	Statistics
Demographic characteristics
Mean age	15.0 ± 1.46	14.78 ± 1.69	, df = 44,
Mean number of years of education	7.98 ± 1.74	8.77 ± 1.36	, df = 85,
Psychiatric history
Mean duration of illness (years)	1.31 ± 1.42	0.76 ± 0.73	, df = 85,
Mean age of illness onset	13.69 ± 2.11	14.01 ± 1.63	, df = 63, ns
First psychotic episode	78.3% ()	96.3% ()	, df = 1,