Influence of gender on social outcome in schizophrenia

Abstract

Gender had a significant influence on social functioning in schizophrenia, even after adjusting for the other independent variables.

Association of gender and schizophrenia subtype with age at disease onset in a cohort from rural Turkey

“…This finding was consistent with the information that schizophrenia started earlier in males [16][17][18] . We did not find any gender difference in the subtypes of schizophrenia and this finding was consistent with other studies 16,19 . Despite socio-cultural differences, the fact that the onset age of schizophrenia was four years higher in the women than in men and that the rates of the schizophrenia subtypes were consistent with those detected in the other studies demonstrates that these rates were determined by neurobiological mechanisms rather than socio-cultural factors.…”

Psychometric Evaluation of a New Instrument inSpanish to Measure Self‐Care Requisites in Patients With Schizophrenia

“…According to Dorothea E. Orem, self-care deficit occurs when a person and the circumstances arising from their health generate a demand for therapeutic care which is beyond the capabilities of the person to perform the actions necessary to meet the self-care requirements (Orem, 2001). Moreover, self-care has been demonstrated to be an important predictor of positive, negative, and disorganized symptoms in people with schizophrenia (Usall et al, 2002;Vila-Rodriguez, Ochoa, Autonell, Usall, & Haro, 2011). Based on this theory, nurses are in a key position to promote self-care activities in patients with schizophrenia treated in the community.…”

Affective empathy in schizophrenia: a meta-analysis

“…For example, we could not assess gender as a moderator because most studies used gender-matching, which would obfuscate potential gender differences in a meta-analytic framework (e.g., using the percent female of the sample as a predictor). Given that females in the general population are more empathic (Derntl et al, 2010;Schulte-Rüther et al, 2008), and females with schizophrenia have better social functioning (Andia et al, 1995;McGlashan and Bardenstein, 1990;Usall et al, 2002), gender could be an important variable to study in relation to affective empathy in schizophrenia. We also could not assess the importance of testing environment -though some studies administered tasks while conducting fMRI scans (Benedetti et al, 2009;Derntl et al, 2012a;Lee et al, 2010), this group was too small to conduct categorical moderator analyses (Fu et al, 2011), preventing examination of the effects of a potentially stressful scanning environment on performance.…”