PREVALENCE OF PSYCHIATRY MORBIDITY IN AN URBAN COMMUNITY OF PONDICHERRY

A cross-sectional study on psychiatric morbidity was conducted in an urban area of Pondicherry between October 1988 and July 1989. A sample of 225 families covering 1115 people of all ages was selected by simple random technique. The prevalence rate was 99.4 per 1000, the prevalence among children b...

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Autores principales: Premarajan, K.C., Danabalan, M., Chandrasekar, R., Srinivasa, D.K.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1993
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2978480/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21743611
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author Premarajan, K.C.
Danabalan, M.
Chandrasekar, R.
Srinivasa, D.K.
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description A cross-sectional study on psychiatric morbidity was conducted in an urban area of Pondicherry between October 1988 and July 1989. A sample of 225 families covering 1115 people of all ages was selected by simple random technique. The prevalence rate was 99.4 per 1000, the prevalence among children being 58.6 per 1000. It was found that age, education, occupation and marital status had significant correlation with mental morbidity. Out of 90 cases detected among adults, psychosis formed 20%, neuroses 47% and alcohol dependence syndrome constituted 30%. Among children two conditions commonly identified were mental retardation and nocturnal enuresis.
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spelling pubmed-29784802011-07-08 PREVALENCE OF PSYCHIATRY MORBIDITY IN AN URBAN COMMUNITY OF PONDICHERRY Premarajan, K.C. Danabalan, M. Chandrasekar, R. Srinivasa, D.K. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article A cross-sectional study on psychiatric morbidity was conducted in an urban area of Pondicherry between October 1988 and July 1989. A sample of 225 families covering 1115 people of all ages was selected by simple random technique. The prevalence rate was 99.4 per 1000, the prevalence among children being 58.6 per 1000. It was found that age, education, occupation and marital status had significant correlation with mental morbidity. Out of 90 cases detected among adults, psychosis formed 20%, neuroses 47% and alcohol dependence syndrome constituted 30%. Among children two conditions commonly identified were mental retardation and nocturnal enuresis. Medknow Publications 1993 /pmc/articles/PMC2978480/ /pubmed/21743611 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Premarajan, K.C.
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PREVALENCE OF PSYCHIATRY MORBIDITY IN AN URBAN COMMUNITY OF PONDICHERRY
title PREVALENCE OF PSYCHIATRY MORBIDITY IN AN URBAN COMMUNITY OF PONDICHERRY
title_full PREVALENCE OF PSYCHIATRY MORBIDITY IN AN URBAN COMMUNITY OF PONDICHERRY
title_fullStr PREVALENCE OF PSYCHIATRY MORBIDITY IN AN URBAN COMMUNITY OF PONDICHERRY
title_full_unstemmed PREVALENCE OF PSYCHIATRY MORBIDITY IN AN URBAN COMMUNITY OF PONDICHERRY
title_short PREVALENCE OF PSYCHIATRY MORBIDITY IN AN URBAN COMMUNITY OF PONDICHERRY
title_sort prevalence of psychiatry morbidity in an urban community of pondicherry
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2978480/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21743611
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