A Study of Prevalence and Biosocial Variables in Mental Illness in a Rural and an Urban Community in Uttar Pradesh—india

Dube, Kushupika

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0447.1970.tb02124.x

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“…Odeguard's (1970) estimate was 2-4 cases per 1,000. Dube (1971), in a survey in Agra, India, obtained a figure of 2.2 per 1,000, and Lin (1953), in Formosa, a figure of 2.1 per 1,000. Endogenous depression in the present survey had a prevalence rate of 0.5 per 1,000, which is at the lower limit of the expected range.…”

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Survey of psychiatric morbidity in a semi‐urban population in Sri Lanka

Wijesinghe

Dissanayake

Dassanayake

1978

Acta Psychiatr Scand

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This paper reports a survey of psychiatric morbidity in a semi-urban community (population 7,653) in Sri Lanka. The entire population was first screened by social workers using a standardized interview. Probable cases were then examined by psychiatrists. Each psychiatric disorder identified was rated on four different parameters of severity, and only those rating moderate or severe were labelled as cases. The socio-demographic characteristics of the cases and the population at risk, and the frequency and nature of psychiatric disorders are presented in Tables. The 6-month period prevalence for all psychiatric disorders was 45.5 per 1,000, with psychoses amounting to 6.9 (males 5.5; females 8.4) per 1,000, and neuroses to 25.2 (males 9.9; females 40.6) per 1,000. The large majority of disorders were chronic and had not received psychiatric treatment. The relevance of these surveys in the provision of psychiatric services in developing countries is discussed.

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“…studies from diverse parts of the world have shown that the prevalence of psychoses varies only within narrow limits (Brugger (1931), Lin (1953), Dunham (1966), Dube (1971). Hence, in a developing country, an exercise in epidemiology primarily directed to determine the prevalence and aetiology of the psychoses would be superfluous and economically unjustified.…”

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Survey of psychiatric morbidity in a semi‐urban population in Sri Lanka

Wijesinghe

Dissanayake

Dassanayake

1978

Acta Psychiatr Scand

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“…Most of the studies (Bhaskaran, Seth, & Yadav, 1970;Channabasavanna, Embar, & Sharieff, 1970;Dube, 1970;Thacore, 1973) found a higher rate of morbidity among the migrant groups. Some of the studies also examined the coping strategies, in particular, yogic exercises and ayurvedic practices, by the people living in rural areas, to famine, natural disasters, suicide in the family, economic deprivation, ill-health, etc.…”

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Cross-cultural investigations of stress: Conceptual and methodological considerations

Laungani

1996

Int J Stress Manage

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“…However, numerically fewer handicapped female children are, in general, brought for proper care to Indian hospitals (Dube, 1970;Sethi et al, 1967;Verghese and Beig, 1974). The present sample is no exception, with only a little more than one-third of the cases being female children.…”

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