Working Class Mexican Psychiatric Outpatients

Fàbrega, Horacio

doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1967.01730240060010

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“…(% of subjects) I heai 5a idfema le sterilization CATEGO classification. High rates of neurotic disorders among urban working class Latin American women have been reported previously by Micklin & Leon (1978) and Fabrega & Wallace (1967). The findings of the present study are in agreement with such data.…”

Section: Mental State Of Index and Control Subjects At Initial Assesssupporting

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Mental health and female sterilization

Jablensky¹

1984

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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In order to evaluate the mental health aspects of voluntary sterilization for family planning purposes, WHO initiated in 1978 a multi-centre prospective controlled study. A-total of 926 healthy women with at least two living children, who requested sterilization (interval, post-partum or post-abortion), and 924 controls using other methods of contraception, were selected for a prospective investigation which included pre-operative and post-operative (6 weeks, 6 months, and 1 year) standardized assessment of mental state and a range of variables related to physical health and psychosexual functioning. Although pre-operatively a high proportion of subjects in both index and control groups reported minor non-specific psychiatric symptoms the percentage of women meeting defined criteria of psychiatric disorder was low to moderate (less than 15%) in all centres except Cali (26%). In all centres the pre-operative rates of psychiatric disorder were somewhat higher in the sterilization groups than in the control groups, and in two centres (Cali and Chandigarh) this difference was statistically significant. Thus, the data indicate that women choosing sterilization for birth control tend to show pre-operatively more psychiatric disturbance than their control counterparts who opt for other methods of contraception.

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Section: Mental State Of Index and Control Subjects At Initial Assesssupporting

confidence: 93%

Mental health and female sterilization

Jablensky¹

1984

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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“…Katz, 1971;Yanagida & Marsella, 1978). Fabrega, Rubel, and Wallace (1967) found that most Mexican psychiatric outpatients studied used a somatic or medical model in describing their problems and conclude that some symptom items may not be symptoms but culturally patterned attitudes or sentiments. On the other hand, Karno and Edgerton (1969) conclude that there are remarkably few differences between Mexican-Americans and Anglos involving perceptions and definitions of mental illness.…”

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Race, ethnicity, and depression: A confirmatory analysis.

Aneshensel¹,

Clark²,

Frerichs³

1983

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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This study addresses two questions: (a) Are depressive-symptom scales equally indicative of depression in different racial/ethnic groups and (b) are there mean differences between the groups in the underlying depressive disorder assessed by these scales? The data consist of interviews obtained from a large community survey of depression in Los Angeles County. Four racial/ethnic groups were considered: Anglos, blacks, English-speaking Hispanics, and Spanish-speaking Hispanics. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to test both one-factor and two-factor models of depression. An invariant factor pattern was demonstrated. No significant mean differences on a factor of Depression were found, but the groups were found to differ on a Well-Being factor. Implications for survey research on psychiatric impairment among different racial/ethnic groups are discussed.

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“…, symptom rates) have been consistently reported in the literature for Mexican-Americans (e.g., Fabrega, Rubel, & Wallace, 1967;Meadow & Stoker, 1965;Meadow, Stoker, & Zurcher, 1967;O'Donnell, Stein, Machabanski, & Cress, 1982;Stoker & Meadow, 1974;Touliatos & Lindholm, 1976;Trevino & Bruhn, 1977;Wignall & Koppin, 1967). Sex-related differences have also been reported on standard epidemiological measures of psychopathology (e.g., Golding & Karno, 1988;Roberts & Roberts, 1982;Vega, Kolody, & Warheit, 1985;Vega, Warheit, Buhl-Auth, & Meinhardt, 1984;Warheit, Vega, Auth, & Meinhardt, 1985).…”

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Mmpi Differences among Mexican-American Male and Female Psychiatric Inpatients

Velásquez

Callahan

Carrillo³

1991

Psychol Rep

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The purpose of this study was to examine to what extent Mexican-American male and female psychiatric patients, who share similar DSM-III--R diagnoses, differ on the MMPI. Differences were found on the Infrequency, Masculinity-Femininity, and Paranoia scales, with the 39 men obtaining significantly higher scores than the 21 women. These results, while suggesting possible differences in the phenomenology of depression, also suggest that MMPI differences between Mexican-American men and women may be reflective of culturally-defined sex roles. These results, when taken within the context of Mexican-American MMPI literature, indicate that researchers should always attempt to account for "gender" when conducting cross-ethnic MMPI comparisons. The practice of grouping the MMPIs of Mexican-American men and women for comparison with other ethnic groups should be discontinued in favor of comparisons that consider the effects of gender and ethnicity.

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Working Class Mexican Psychiatric Outpatients

Cited by 30 publications

References 33 publications

Mental health and female sterilization

Mental health and female sterilization

Race, ethnicity, and depression: A confirmatory analysis.

Mmpi Differences among Mexican-American Male and Female Psychiatric Inpatients

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