PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY IN AN URBANIZED TRIBAL (SANTAL) COMMUNITY - A FIELD SURVEY

Psychiatric morbidity was studied in an urbanized tribal (Santal) community comprising 205 families in the district of Nadia, West Bengal by the method of door to door survey of each family by a team of psychiatrists. Total morbidity was 519 1000. Depression was the commonest type of illness. Neurot...

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Autores principales: Banerjee, Tapas, Mukherjee, S.P., Nandi, D.N., Banerjee, G., Mukherjee, Amitava, Sen, Biswajit, Sarker, G., Boral, G.C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1986
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3172538/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21927183
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author Banerjee, Tapas
Mukherjee, S.P.
Nandi, D.N.
Banerjee, G.
Mukherjee, Amitava
Sen, Biswajit
Sarker, G.
Boral, G.C.
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description Psychiatric morbidity was studied in an urbanized tribal (Santal) community comprising 205 families in the district of Nadia, West Bengal by the method of door to door survey of each family by a team of psychiatrists. Total morbidity was 519 1000. Depression was the commonest type of illness. Neurotic illness, epilepsy and mental retaliation had a very low rate of prevalence. Married individuals were more attached than the unmarried ones. Males had a slightly higher rate of mental morbidity. The population showed a general tendency of greater vulnerability to mental illness with advancing age. Results are discussed in the perspective of relevant studies.
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spelling pubmed-31725382011-09-16 PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY IN AN URBANIZED TRIBAL (SANTAL) COMMUNITY - A FIELD SURVEY Banerjee, Tapas Mukherjee, S.P. Nandi, D.N. Banerjee, G. Mukherjee, Amitava Sen, Biswajit Sarker, G. Boral, G.C. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Psychiatric morbidity was studied in an urbanized tribal (Santal) community comprising 205 families in the district of Nadia, West Bengal by the method of door to door survey of each family by a team of psychiatrists. Total morbidity was 519 1000. Depression was the commonest type of illness. Neurotic illness, epilepsy and mental retaliation had a very low rate of prevalence. Married individuals were more attached than the unmarried ones. Males had a slightly higher rate of mental morbidity. The population showed a general tendency of greater vulnerability to mental illness with advancing age. Results are discussed in the perspective of relevant studies. Medknow Publications 1986 /pmc/articles/PMC3172538/ /pubmed/21927183 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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Banerjee, Tapas
Mukherjee, S.P.
Nandi, D.N.
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Sarker, G.
Boral, G.C.
PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY IN AN URBANIZED TRIBAL (SANTAL) COMMUNITY - A FIELD SURVEY
title PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY IN AN URBANIZED TRIBAL (SANTAL) COMMUNITY - A FIELD SURVEY
title_full PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY IN AN URBANIZED TRIBAL (SANTAL) COMMUNITY - A FIELD SURVEY
title_fullStr PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY IN AN URBANIZED TRIBAL (SANTAL) COMMUNITY - A FIELD SURVEY
title_full_unstemmed PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY IN AN URBANIZED TRIBAL (SANTAL) COMMUNITY - A FIELD SURVEY
title_short PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY IN AN URBANIZED TRIBAL (SANTAL) COMMUNITY - A FIELD SURVEY
title_sort psychiatric morbidity in an urbanized tribal (santal) community - a field survey
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