Some social and phenomenological characteristics of psychotic immigrants
Psychol Med
; 11(2): 289-302, May 1981.
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ABSTRACT
Various studies have shown (i) increased rates of psychoses in immigrants to Britain, and a particularly high rate of schizophrenia in the West Indian- and West African-born; and (ii) a greater proportion of atypical psychoses in immigrants. A retrospective study of psychotic in-patients from a London psychiatric unit demonstrated increased rates of schizophrenia in patients from the Caribbean and West Africa. These patients included a high proportion of those with paranoid and religious phenomenology, those with frequent changes of diagnosis, formal admissions, and married women. The West Indian-born had been in Britain for nearly ten years before seeing a psychiatrist and, if they had an illness with religious symptomatology, were likely to have been in hospital for only 3 weeks. Rates of schizophrenia without paranoid phenomenology were similar in each ethnic group. It is suggested that the increase in the diagnosis of schizophrenia in the West Indian-born, and possibly in the West African-born, may be due in part to the occurrence of acute psychotic reactions which are diagnosed as schizophrenia. (Summary)
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Assunto principal:
Transtornos Psicóticos
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Etnicidade
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Emigração e Imigração
Tipo de estudo:
Observational_studies
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Qualitative_research
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
País/Região como assunto:
Africa
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Asia
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Caribe
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Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Psychol Med
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Psychol. med
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Psychological medicine
Ano de publicação:
1981
Tipo de documento:
Article