AN INCIDENCE STUDY OF SCHIZOPHRENIA IN INDIA

Under a WHO collaborative study, the Chandigarh center monitored two geographically defined populations over a 2-year period. Using helping-agency-coverage and other methods along with a set of specified criteria, 268 first-onset potentially schizophrenic cases were actively identified. Of these, 23...

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Autores principales: Wig, N.N., Varma, Vijoy K., Mattoo, S.K., Behere, P.B., Phookan, H.R., Misra, A.K., Murthy, R. Srinivasa, Tripathi, B.M., Menon, D.K., Khandelawal, S.K., Bedi, H.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1993
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2972559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21776160
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Sumario:Under a WHO collaborative study, the Chandigarh center monitored two geographically defined populations over a 2-year period. Using helping-agency-coverage and other methods along with a set of specified criteria, 268 first-onset potentially schizophrenic cases were actively identified. Of these, 232 cases could be assessed in detail which included 209 schizophrenics as per specified ICD-9 or Catego criteria. The annual incidence rates obtained were 4.4 and 3.8 per 10,000 for rural and urban areas, respectively. The rural cohort had a higher incidence for each of the three diagnostic definitions. In the urban cohort, sex and diagnostic definition did not affect the incidence. In the rural cohort, females had a lower incidence for Catego S+ and a higher incidence for other diagnostic definitions.

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