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Patients who are diagnosed with Schizophrenia also often express depressive symptoms along with their Schizophrenic symptoms. This depression can be the result of the stress they feel over their episodes of paranoia. Their depression can lead to them having a higher risk of suicide attempts, a lower quality of life, as well has a longer time spent hospitalized for their condition. These depressive symptoms are highly considered as clinically important. Researchers are trying to find a better understanding of the clinical variables that attribute to the depressive symptoms expressed throughout the multiple phases of Schizophrenia. …show more content…
Longitudinal studies are the study of the same group of people at regular intervals of a period of years to analyze change. A cross sectional study is a research method in which data is collected form groups of participants of different ages and compared so that conclusions can be drawn about differences due to age. The research conducted in this article was a combination of both a longitudinal study and cross sectional study. It is a longitudinal study as the same group was tested from January 2013 and then again in December 2014. It is aksi a cross sectional study because the sample selected was of schizophrenic people of varying ages in order to obtain the most accurate data. Also in chapter two we discussed correlations and mean, median, and mode of data. Correlations are the measures of a relationship between two variables or sets of data. In this study, the researchers were attempting to find a correlation between having symptoms of depression causing and or in addition to acute schizophrenic episodes, After conducting their research, they found the mean age of the sample of people was 32.68 years and the mean EDSS score was 2.76. The concept of means were also discussed in chapter two and defined as the arithmetic average of all the individual measurements in a distribution. As discussed this article, people with schizophrenia are very prone to have hallucinations. In this study 73% of the people tested reported having hallucinations. In chapter seven we discussed hallucination as a side effect of hypnosis, drugs, meditation,and drug withdrawal. Hallucinations are defined as perceptions that have no direct external