Differences in Total Score of Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale between Bataknese and Javanese Men with Schizophrenia Receiving Risperidone Treatment

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Schizophrenia is a psychopathological syndrome clinic involving cognition, emotion, perception and other aspects from the individual which interferences. This interference is normally started before age 25, and it can affect all social classes.
 AIM: To find out the difference in total positive and negative syndrome scale (PANSS) scores in schizophrenia between Bataknese and Javanese who have received treatment with risperidone.
 METHODS: This study is a prospective study. This study used numeric comparative analytic two unpaired groups to observe the differences of PANSS score of the man with schizophrenia between Bataknese and Javanese who had received risperidone treatment.
 RESULTS: Our study found that the average score of PANSS for Bataknese was 49.76 ± 12.65 and Javanese was 42.43 ± 9.05.
 CONCLUSION: There was a difference score of PANSS for the man with schizophrenia between Bataknese and Javanese who had received risperidone treatment for 6 weeks (p = 0.037).

Correlation between Glutathione Levels and Severity Symptoms among Bataknese Male patients with Schizophrenia

“…in Tunisia found a mean age of 32.2 years for individuals with Schizophrenia. [12] This study also found that the highest level of education among the research subjects was high school (72.9%), which is consistent with the findings of Pardosi et al in a study of the Batak ethnic group, where they found that 38.1% of the subjects had completed junior high school, 57.1% had completed high school, and 4.8% had a bachelor's degree. The study also found that 70% of the subjects were unmarried and 68% were unemployed, which is consistent with a previous study by Yildiz et al in Turkey that involved 720 individuals with Schizophrenia, which found that 68% of the subjects were never married, 56% were unemployed, and 69% lived with their parents.…”