Sex Differences in Schizophrenia

Chung-Chou Chu, Annisse' Abi-Dargham, Bette Ackerman, Maummer Cetingok and Helen E. Klein
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Chung-Chou Chu: Department of Psychiatry, University of Tennessee, Memphis, 66 North Pauline, Suite 633, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, USA
Annisse' Abi-Dargham: University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Memphis, Tennessee
Bette Ackerman: University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Memphis, Tennessee
Maummer Cetingok: Social Work, University of Tennessee School of Social Work, Memphis, Tennessee
Helen E. Klein: University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine, Missouri Institute of Psychiatry, St. Louis, Missouri

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1989, vol. 35, issue 3, 237-244

Abstract: Demographic and clinical characteristics of 275 schizophrenics consecutively admitted to seven hospitals were examined. Males were younger than females when first hospitalized, diagnosed and treated. Psychiatrists rated on two rating scales by using a structured interview to compare the symptomatology. Female schizophrenics were more agitated, inappropriate, silly, irrelevant, over-talkative, and exhibiting more flight of ideas, while male schizophrenics were more slowed, hypoactive, grandiose, withdrawn, and showing more blocking, auditory hallucinations and poor communications. Katz Adjustment Scales were rated by the patients and their relatives. Female schizophrenics were perceived by relatives to be more helpless and withdrawn-depressed than male schizophrenics.

Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.1177/002076408903500304

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