AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY OF PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS IN RURAL FARIDKOT (PUNJAB)*

Epidemiological study of priority psychiatric disorders in a rural area of Faridkot it described. Prevalence is found to be 22.12 per thousand and this is comparable to figures reported by other studies. The prevalence is highest in age group of 35-44, males are more affected than females, and preva...

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Autores principales: Sachdeva, Jaswant Singh, Singh, Surinder, Sidhu, Balwant Singh, Goyal, R.K.D., Singh, Jagdev
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1986
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3172520/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21927196
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author Sachdeva, Jaswant Singh
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description Epidemiological study of priority psychiatric disorders in a rural area of Faridkot it described. Prevalence is found to be 22.12 per thousand and this is comparable to figures reported by other studies. The prevalence is highest in age group of 35-44, males are more affected than females, and prevalence it more in widows and divorced. Psychiatric morbidity is found to be more in nuclear families as compared to joint families. Among various diagnostic categories prevalence of Manic depressive psychoses (13.08 per thousand) is found to be most common. The implications of the above observations are discussed and compared with the previous reported studies.
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spelling pubmed-31725202011-09-16 AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY OF PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS IN RURAL FARIDKOT (PUNJAB)* Sachdeva, Jaswant Singh Singh, Surinder Sidhu, Balwant Singh Goyal, R.K.D. Singh, Jagdev Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Epidemiological study of priority psychiatric disorders in a rural area of Faridkot it described. Prevalence is found to be 22.12 per thousand and this is comparable to figures reported by other studies. The prevalence is highest in age group of 35-44, males are more affected than females, and prevalence it more in widows and divorced. Psychiatric morbidity is found to be more in nuclear families as compared to joint families. Among various diagnostic categories prevalence of Manic depressive psychoses (13.08 per thousand) is found to be most common. The implications of the above observations are discussed and compared with the previous reported studies. Medknow Publications 1986 /pmc/articles/PMC3172520/ /pubmed/21927196 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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Singh, Surinder
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title_short AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY OF PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS IN RURAL FARIDKOT (PUNJAB)*
title_sort epidemiological study of psychiatric disorders in rural faridkot (punjab)*
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