Gender differences in 353 inpatients with acute XXXX : The experience of one Psychiatric Emergency Service of Turin.

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UNASSIGNED: The aim of the study is to evaluate gender-related socio-demographic and clinical differences in a large sample of inpatients with @entity161 spectrum disorder. A sample of 353 acute @entity1 , 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 @entity1 and @entity1 . A two-way ANOVA for repeated measures was performed for CGI-S and GAF. @entity1 were younger, more likely to be never married, more often substance abusers. Male @entity1 showed both lower @entity308 and anergia symptom scores and higher activation symptom scores than female @entity1 . 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 @entity716 should target specific gender differences which should influence therapeutic approach in all its modalities.
