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Age of Disease Onset in Croatia's Hospitalised Schizophrenics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

V. Folnegović-Šmalc ,
Z. Folnegović  and
Z. Kulčr
V. Folnegović-Šmalc*
Affiliation:
Professor of Psychiatry, Head, Department of Psychiatry, Vrapče University Psychiatric Hospital, Zagreb, Yugoslavia
Z. Folnegović
Affiliation:
Statistician, Head, Statistical Analysis and Computerised Processing Unit, Chronic Disease Service, Epidemiology Department, Institute of Public Health of SR Croatia, Zagreb, Yugoslavia
Z. Kulčr
Affiliation:
Professor of Epidemiology, Head, Chronic Disease Service, Epidemiology Department, Institute of Public Health of SR Croatia, Zagreb, Yugoslavia
*
∗Klinicka psihijatrijska bolnica Vrapče, 41090 Zagreb, Yugoslavia
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Abstract

Age at onset was determined in a sample of 360 patients representative of the 8069 schizophrenics hospitalised in SR Croatia. The 95% confidence interval for mean age at onset was 22.9–26.7 years. The difference between males and females was not significant, unlike the age difference between the sexes reported for age at first admission for schizophrenia. Results may be influenced by attrition of the original population of patients.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 156 , Issue 3 , March 1990 , pp. 368 - 372
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1990 

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