PMID- 25890692
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20151214
LR  - 20181202
IS  - 1872-7123 (Electronic)
IS  - 0165-1781 (Linking)
VI  - 227
IP  - 2-3
DP  - 2015 Jun 30
TI  - Gender differences in 353 inpatients with acute psychosis: The experience of one 
      Psychiatric Emergency Service of Turin.
PG  - 192-7
LID - S0165-1781(15)00179-1 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.psychres.2015.03.035 [doi]
AB  - The aim of the study is to evaluate gender-related socio-demographic and clinical 
      differences in a large sample of inpatients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder. 
      A sample of 353 acute patients, consecutively hospitalized between January 2007 
      and December 2008 in the Psychiatric Emergency Service of the San Giovanni 
      Battista Hospital, was recruited. Psychiatric assessment included the Clinical 
      Global Impression Scale-Severity (CGI-S), the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale 
      (BPRS) and the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF). Differences between the 
      groups were tested using chi-square test and ANOVA. Data were analyzed using a 
      three-way MANOVA with the six BPRS scales with repeated measures for 
      admission/discharge and BPRS total score baseline and independent groups for men 
      and women. A two-way ANOVA for repeated measures was performed for CGI-S and GAF. 
      Men were younger, more likely to be never married, more often substance abusers. 
      Male patients showed both lower anxious-depressive and anergia symptom scores and 
      higher activation symptom scores than female patients. Brief hospitalization was 
      shown to be highly effective in both groups. Females showed a significantly 
      better improvement in anergia and activation than males. The present evidence 
      suggests that management of acute psychosis should target specific gender 
      differences which should influence therapeutic approach in all its modalities.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2015 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Montemagni, Cristiana
AU  - Montemagni C
AD  - Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatric Section, University of Turin, SSCVD, Via 
      Cherasco 11, 10126 Turin, Italy.
FAU - Frieri, Tiziana
AU  - Frieri T
AD  - Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatric Section, University of Turin, SSCVD, Via 
      Cherasco 11, 10126 Turin, Italy.
FAU - Blandamura, Arianna
AU  - Blandamura A
AD  - Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatric Section, University of Turin, SSCVD, Via 
      Cherasco 11, 10126 Turin, Italy.
FAU - Villari, Vincenzo
AU  - Villari V
AD  - Department of Neuroscience and Mental Health, SC Psychiatry SPDC, A.O. Citta 
      della Salute e della Scienza, Turin, Italy.
FAU - Rocca, Paola
AU  - Rocca P
AD  - Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatric Section, University of Turin, SSCVD, Via 
      Cherasco 11, 10126 Turin, Italy. Electronic address: paola.rocca@unito.it.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20150407
PL  - Ireland
TA  - Psychiatry Res
JT  - Psychiatry research
JID - 7911385
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Anxiety/*diagnosis/psychology
MH  - Depression/*diagnosis/psychology
MH  - Emergency Services, Psychiatric
MH  - Female
MH  - Hospitalization
MH  - Humans
MH  - Inpatients
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
MH  - Psychotic Disorders/*diagnosis/psychology
MH  - Schizophrenia/*diagnosis
MH  - Schizophrenic Psychology
MH  - Sex Factors
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Acute psychosis
OT  - Gender differences
OT  - Hospitalization
OT  - Psychiatric Emergency Service
OT  - Schizophrenia spectrum disorder
EDAT- 2015/04/22 06:00
MHDA- 2015/12/15 06:00
CRDT- 2015/04/20 06:00
PHST- 2014/07/21 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2015/02/07 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2015/03/30 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2015/04/20 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/04/22 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/12/15 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0165-1781(15)00179-1 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.psychres.2015.03.035 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Psychiatry Res. 2015 Jun 30;227(2-3):192-7. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2015.03.035. 
      Epub 2015 Apr 7.