Table 1 Demographic characteristics and the SCL-90-R score of the study groups

Age (Mean ± SD)

42 ± 10

44 ± 11

0.262*

BMI (Mean ± SD)

25.8 ± 4.0

26.3 ± 3.9

0.293*

Marital status (number, %)

0.892**

Single

11(8.6)

33(9.0)

Married

117(91.4)

334(91.)

Education (number, %)

<0.001**

Primary and secondary school

99(77.3)

214(58.3)

High school and upper

29(27.3)

153(41.7)

Employment status (number, %)

0.237**

Employed

73(57)

231 (62.9)

Unemployed

55 (43.0)

136 (37.1)

Somatization (mean ± SD)

1.50(0.88)

1.78(0.82)

0.002*

Obsessive-compulsive (mean ± SD)

1.37 (0.85)

1.55(0.79)

0.031*

Interpersonal sensitivity (mean ± SD)

1.08 (0.76)

1.17(0.75)

0.246*

Depression (mean ± SD)

1.20 (0.75)

1.42(0.81)

0.007*

Anxiety (mean ± SD)

1.24 (0.81)

1.41(0.80)

0.042*

Hostility (mean ± SD)

1.10 (0.84)

1.36(0.78)

0.002*

Phobic anxiety (mean ± SD)

0.76 (0.72)

0.74(0.81)

0.780*

Paranoid ideation (mean ± SD)

1.20 (0.80)

1.26(0.74)

0.479*

Psychoticism (mean ± SD)

0.78 (0.66)

0.83(0.69)

0.540*

Global severity index (GSI) (mean ± SD)

1.16 (0.70)

1.31(0.68)

0.045*

Positive symptom total (PST) (Mean ± SD)

51.10 (23.25)

52.91(19.80)

0.406*

Positive symptom distress index (PSDI) (mean ± SD)

1.94 (0.46)

2.14(0.48)

<0.001*