A Patient with Schizophrenia Tends to Have the Most Favourable

question 112

Multiple Choice

A patient with schizophrenia tends to have the most favourable prognosis when

• A) the onset of the disorder is gradual.
• B) the onset occurs at an early age.
• C) the proportion of negative symptoms is relatively low.
• D) the patient's family is high in expressed emotion.

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Definitions:

Confidence Estimate

A range or single value derived from a sample statistic that covers an unknown population parameter with a certain confidence level.

T-Distribution

Is a type of probability distribution that is symmetric and bell-shaped, used in statistics when the sample size is small and the population standard deviation is unknown.

Degrees Of Freedom

The number of values in a calculation that are free to vary without violating any constraints, used to determine the shape of various statistical distributions.

Sample Mean

The mean of a dataset, found by adding up all the values and then dividing the total by the count of values in the set.