Table 3.
Sex differences in adherence to antipsychotic medication, use of depot antipsychotics, psychotic symptoms, relapse and admittances to hospital through two years in recent onset schizophrenia
| Adherence with oral or depot antipsychotics | Adherence with oral antipsychotics | Use of depot antipsychotics | |||||||||
| Good | Not good | Chi Squ | P | Good | Not good | Chi Squ | P | Not use | Use | P | |
| Men N = 31 | N = 18 | N = 13 | N = 15 | N = 16 | N = 24 | N = 7 | |||||
| Persistent psychotic | 2 (11%) | 7 (54%) | 6,69 | ,010 | 1 (7%) | 8 (50%) | 7,06 | ,008 | 5 (21%) | 4 (57%) | ,15 F |
| Relapse | 3 (17%) | 8 (62%) | 6,64 | ,010 | 2 (13%) | 9 (56%) | 6,23 | ,013 | 7 (29%) | 4 (57%) | ,21 F |
| Admitted to hospital | 4 (22%) | 7 (54%) | 3,30 | ,069 | 4 (27%) | 7 (44%) | 0,99 | ,320 | 7 (29%) | 4 (57%) | ,21 F |
| Women N = 19 | N = 16 | N = 3 | N = 13 | N = 6 | N = 14 | N = 5 | |||||
| Persistent psychotic | 4 (25%) | 0 (0%) | 1,0 F | 3 (23%) | 1 (17%) | 1,0 F | 3 (21%) | 1 (20%) | 1,0 F | ||
| Relapse | 3 (19%) | 3 (100%) | ,021 F | 1 (8%) | 5 (83%) | ,003 F | 2 (14%) | 4 (80%) | ,017 F | ||
| Admitted to hospital | 6 (38%) | 3 (100%) | ,087 F | 5 (38%) | 4 (67%) | ,350 F | 6 (43%) | 3 (60 %) | ,628 F | ||
F = Fischers exact test