Negative and positive childhood experiences across developmental periods in psychiatric patients with different diagnoses – an explorative study

Table 1 Demographic characteristics of the control and of the patient groups^{1, 2}

	Alcohol Related Disorders		Schizophrenic Disorders		Affective Disorders		Personality Disorders		Controls
	G/S	R	G/S	R	G/S	R	G/S	R	G/S	R	Analysis
	N		N		N		N		N		χ²	p
Gender											12	<.05
Female	6	10	10	11	14	19	11	6	23	15
Male	14	15	18	13	10	11	15	9	15	10
	Mean ± SD		Mean ± SD		Mean ± SD		Mean ± SD		Mean ± SD		F	p
Age	31 ± 9	45 ± 12	34 ± 8	36 ± 10	40 ± 12	44 ± 8	34 ± 8	32 ± 11	38 ± 13	28 ± 7	6	<.001
Education	2 ± 1	2 ± 1	3 ± 1	3 ± 1	3 ± 1	3 ± 1	2 ± 1	3 ± 1	3 ± 1	3 ± 1	4	<.01
Psychiatric history (yrs)	6 ± 1	7 ± 10	8 ± 9	11 ± 10	4 ± 6	9 ± 9	4 ± 5	6 ± 7	-	-	2	n.s.

¹ Abbreviations: G/S: German/Swiss; R: Romanian; Education: 0 = no education, 1 = school for the mentally challenged, 3 = middle school, 4 = high school;
² Areas where the values are written with bold characters indicate significant differences between German/Swiss and Romanian subjects within the diagnostic groups (i.e., alcohol-related disorders, schizophrenic disorders, affective disorders, personality disorders and control group respectively).

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