POSSESSION SYNDROME: AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY IN WEST KARNATAKA1

A house to house survey was conducted for a population of 1158 in west Karnataka to determine the prevalence of possession syndrome and to study people's attitude towards the same. One year period prevalence was found to be 3.7%. 90% of the respondents believed in possession. Women more than me...

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Autores principales: Venkataramaiah, V., Mallikarjunaiah, M., Chandrasekhar, C. R., Rao, C. K. Vasudeva, Reddy, G. N. Narayana
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1981
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3012945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22058541
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author Venkataramaiah, V.
Mallikarjunaiah, M.
Chandrasekhar, C. R.
Rao, C. K. Vasudeva
Reddy, G. N. Narayana
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description A house to house survey was conducted for a population of 1158 in west Karnataka to determine the prevalence of possession syndrome and to study people's attitude towards the same. One year period prevalence was found to be 3.7%. 90% of the respondents believed in possession. Women more than men shared this belief. Spirit possession was reported to be troublesome but God possession as helpful. Number of God possession cases exceeded tint of spirit possession. Female sex, young age, low education appeared to predispose an individual to get possessed in such atmosphere.
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spelling pubmed-30129452011-11-06 POSSESSION SYNDROME: AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY IN WEST KARNATAKA1 Venkataramaiah, V. Mallikarjunaiah, M. Chandrasekhar, C. R. Rao, C. K. Vasudeva Reddy, G. N. Narayana Indian J Psychiatry Original Article A house to house survey was conducted for a population of 1158 in west Karnataka to determine the prevalence of possession syndrome and to study people's attitude towards the same. One year period prevalence was found to be 3.7%. 90% of the respondents believed in possession. Women more than men shared this belief. Spirit possession was reported to be troublesome but God possession as helpful. Number of God possession cases exceeded tint of spirit possession. Female sex, young age, low education appeared to predispose an individual to get possessed in such atmosphere. Medknow Publications 1981 /pmc/articles/PMC3012945/ /pubmed/22058541 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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Venkataramaiah, V.
Mallikarjunaiah, M.
Chandrasekhar, C. R.
Rao, C. K. Vasudeva
Reddy, G. N. Narayana
POSSESSION SYNDROME: AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY IN WEST KARNATAKA1
title POSSESSION SYNDROME: AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY IN WEST KARNATAKA1
title_full POSSESSION SYNDROME: AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY IN WEST KARNATAKA1
title_fullStr POSSESSION SYNDROME: AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY IN WEST KARNATAKA1
title_full_unstemmed POSSESSION SYNDROME: AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY IN WEST KARNATAKA1
title_short POSSESSION SYNDROME: AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY IN WEST KARNATAKA1
title_sort possession syndrome: an epidemiological study in west karnataka1
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3012945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22058541
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