ROLE OF STRESSFUL LIFE EVENTS IN MANIA

The study investigated the role of stressful life events and family pathology in manic illness-selecting 30 cases of mania from Psychiatric Centre Jaipur and 30 normal controls from paramedical staff of psychiatric hospital. Both manics and normals were matched in terms of age, sex, education, marit...

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Autores principales: Singhal, A.K., Agarwal, Savita, Nathawat, S.S.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1984
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3011241/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21965988
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description The study investigated the role of stressful life events and family pathology in manic illness-selecting 30 cases of mania from Psychiatric Centre Jaipur and 30 normal controls from paramedical staff of psychiatric hospital. Both manics and normals were matched in terms of age, sex, education, marital status etc. All the subjects were subjected to Paykel's life events questionnaire, and an intensive psychiatric interview. Results revealed the significance of life stresses and family pathology in the genesis of mania. Death of close relative, financial difficulties, death of spouse, disappointment due to defeat in election, turned out to be major life events in contribution of manic pathology.
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spelling pubmed-30112412011-10-02 ROLE OF STRESSFUL LIFE EVENTS IN MANIA Singhal, A.K. Agarwal, Savita Nathawat, S.S. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article The study investigated the role of stressful life events and family pathology in manic illness-selecting 30 cases of mania from Psychiatric Centre Jaipur and 30 normal controls from paramedical staff of psychiatric hospital. Both manics and normals were matched in terms of age, sex, education, marital status etc. All the subjects were subjected to Paykel's life events questionnaire, and an intensive psychiatric interview. Results revealed the significance of life stresses and family pathology in the genesis of mania. Death of close relative, financial difficulties, death of spouse, disappointment due to defeat in election, turned out to be major life events in contribution of manic pathology. Medknow Publications 1984 /pmc/articles/PMC3011241/ /pubmed/21965988 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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