Schizophrenia in Thailand: prevalence and burden of disease

Table 1 The number of community-based and hospitalized people with psychotic disorders and prevalence of schizophrenia

Age	Survey participants		Surveyed cases of psychosis		Estimated community-based prevalence (percent)^a		Hospital-based prevalence (percent)^a
	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female
15-24	1,434	1,330	9	18	0.524	1.130	0.011	0.004
25-34	1,547	1,554	20	13	1.079	0.698	0.037	0.008
35-44	1,490	1,589	20	11	1.121	0.579	0.023	0.007
45-59	1,322	1,419	13	17	0.854	1.026	0.015	0.008
Total	5,793	5,889	62	59	0.900	0.848	0.022	0.007

^a We adjusted the number of people with psychosis to estimate schizophrenia prevalence, using the ratio of 0.83 [16].

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