Title: Prevalence and correlated factors of deficit schizophrenia in community-dwelling patients with schizophrenia
Abstract: Objective
To explore the prevalence, socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of deficit schizophrenia in Chinese community-dwelling patients with schizophrenia.
Methods
Five hundred and three community-dwelling patients with schizophrenia were recruited in a cross-sectional study in Yuhuatai District of Nanjing, and deficit schizophrenia was confirmed by Chinese version of the Schedule for the Deficit Syndrome (SDS). Their socio-demographic and clinical characteristics were collected. All patients' psychopathology was assessed by Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS).
Results
The current prevalence of community-dwelling patients with deficit schizophrenia was 0.67‰. Deficit schizophrenia had significantly higher hospitalizations((2.4±1.3)times, (1.9±0.9)times), PANSS negative scores((28.4±8.1), (17.7±6.3)), PANSS total score((96.5±17.3), (87.3±18.1)) than non-deficit schizophrenia(all P<0.05), while non-deficit schizophrenia had higher currently smoking rate, positive scores, marriage percentage and age of onset(all P<0.05). Further multiple logistic regression analysis indicated that male sex, age of onset, smoking and negative PANSS score were independently associated with deficit schizophrenia.
Conclusion
The study showed that deficit schizophrenia is very common in Chinese psychiatric outpatients. The results partially support deficit schizophrenia as an independent subtype of schizophrenia.
Key words:
Deficit schizophrenia; Prevalence; Positive and negative syndrome scale
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-10-20
Language: en
Type: article
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