Esquizofrenia y género

Abstract

During the last past few decades, the study of gender has become a widely studied variable among schizophrenia researchers. This, in turn, gave rise to a large number of studies confirming its importance in the study of etiology, diagnostics, course, and delivery services in schizophrenia. The present study systematically reviews gender effects on schizophrenia by showing the most consistent findings as well as examining conceptual and methodological shortcomings observed in individual studies. The results of this analysis show that most of the research in this area insufficiently integrates gender issues in schizophrenia. Moreover, these studies are interpreted from a psychometric
point of view, which often ignores the important role of psychosocia determinants that help explaining the impact of gender issues in schizophrenia research.