PMID- 25601015
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20171030
LR  - 20171126
IS  - 1751-7893 (Electronic)
IS  - 1751-7885 (Linking)
VI  - 10
IP  - 6
DP  - 2016 Dec
TI  - Gender differences in patients with first-episode psychosis in the Singapore 
      Early Psychosis Intervention Programme.
PG  - 528-534
LID - 10.1111/eip.12208 [doi]
AB  - AIMS: This study aimed to identify the gender differences among multi-ethnic, 
      Asian patients with first-episode psychosis attending the Early Psychosis 
      Intervention Programme (EPIP) in Singapore. METHODS: Data for this study were 
      derived from 533 (258 female, 275 male) patients aged 16-41 years old in the EPIP 
      database. Socio-demographic data, Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale for 
      schizophrenia (PANSS) and Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) scores at 
      baseline, 3 months, 6 months and 1 year were obtained. RESULTS: Significant 
      gender differences were identified in terms of age, marital status, referral 
      source, PANSS scores, GAF scores, remission and recovery over 1 year in the 
      cohort. At service entry, female participants were older, more likely to be 
      married and more likely to be referred from general practitioner/polyclinics 
      (P < 0.0001). They showed better improvement over 1 year in PANSS positive, PANSS 
      total, GAF disability and GAF total scores. CONCLUSIONS: Overall, female 
      participants in this sample show better improvement than male participants. They 
      showed a better course of illness over 1 year with one-third (33.3%) of female 
      participants achieving recovery compared with approximately a quarter (23.6%) of 
      male participants.
CI  - (c) 2015 Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd.
FAU - Pang, Shirlene
AU  - Pang S
AD  - Research Division, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore. 
      shirlene_pang@imh.com.sg.
FAU - Subramaniam, Mythily
AU  - Subramaniam M
AD  - Research Division, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore.
FAU - Abdin, Edimansyah
AU  - Abdin E
AD  - Research Division, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore.
FAU - Poon, Lye Yin
AU  - Poon LY
AD  - Department of Early Psychosis Intervention, Institute of Mental Health, 
      Singapore.
FAU - Chong, Siow Ann
AU  - Chong SA
AD  - Research Division, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore.
FAU - Verma, Swapna
AU  - Verma S
AD  - Department of Early Psychosis Intervention, Institute of Mental Health, 
      Singapore.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20150120
PL  - Australia
TA  - Early Interv Psychiatry
JT  - Early intervention in psychiatry
JID - 101320027
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Prognosis
MH  - Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
MH  - Psychotic Disorders/*diagnosis
MH  - *Sex Characteristics
MH  - Singapore
MH  - Young Adult
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - early intervention
OT  - early psychosis
OT  - first-episode psychosis
OT  - gender difference
OT  - remission
EDAT- 2016/10/21 06:00
MHDA- 2017/10/31 06:00
CRDT- 2015/01/21 06:00
PHST- 2014/08/20 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2014/11/09 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2016/10/21 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/10/31 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2015/01/21 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1111/eip.12208 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Early Interv Psychiatry. 2016 Dec;10(6):528-534. doi: 10.1111/eip.12208. Epub 
      2015 Jan 20.