HYSTERIA—A PSYCHODEMOGRAPHIC STUDY

The study refers to Sixty five cases, diagnosed as Hysteria in the course of one year in a general hospital clinic. High occurrence was seen in the age group of 16-20 years. Mean age was 19.1 years. Females formed the majority of the patients (63.1%). Occurrence was higher in unmarried males and fem...

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Autores principales: Ponnudurai, R., Somasundaram, O., Balakrishnan, S., Srinivasan, Radha
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1981
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3013185/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22058515
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author Ponnudurai, R.
Somasundaram, O.
Balakrishnan, S.
Srinivasan, Radha
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description The study refers to Sixty five cases, diagnosed as Hysteria in the course of one year in a general hospital clinic. High occurrence was seen in the age group of 16-20 years. Mean age was 19.1 years. Females formed the majority of the patients (63.1%). Occurrence was higher in unmarried males and females. Illness was more common in persons with lower education and socio-economic status. Nuclear families harboured greater number of the patients. Various psychogenic factors and the symptoms observed are discussed. During the follow up period, which was spread over a period of two years, it was observed that twenty two patients (33.8%) got rid of their symptoms altogether whereas fourteen of them (21.5%) had only partial relief.
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spelling pubmed-30131852011-11-06 HYSTERIA—A PSYCHODEMOGRAPHIC STUDY Ponnudurai, R. Somasundaram, O. Balakrishnan, S. Srinivasan, Radha Indian J Psychiatry Original Article The study refers to Sixty five cases, diagnosed as Hysteria in the course of one year in a general hospital clinic. High occurrence was seen in the age group of 16-20 years. Mean age was 19.1 years. Females formed the majority of the patients (63.1%). Occurrence was higher in unmarried males and females. Illness was more common in persons with lower education and socio-economic status. Nuclear families harboured greater number of the patients. Various psychogenic factors and the symptoms observed are discussed. During the follow up period, which was spread over a period of two years, it was observed that twenty two patients (33.8%) got rid of their symptoms altogether whereas fourteen of them (21.5%) had only partial relief. Medknow Publications 1981 /pmc/articles/PMC3013185/ /pubmed/22058515 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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HYSTERIA—A PSYCHODEMOGRAPHIC STUDY
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title_short HYSTERIA—A PSYCHODEMOGRAPHIC STUDY
title_sort hysteria—a psychodemographic study
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22058515
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