Hallucinations in Kenyan schizophrenic patients.
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1983-03Author
Ndetei David M.
Singh, A
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Eighty Kenyan 'psychotic' patients were screened using the New Haven Schizophrenic Index (NHSI) and were all studied for hallucinations using standardised definitions. Fifty-one of the patients were NHSI positive and the rest NHSI negative. Sixty-one percent of the NHSI positive had hallucinations in one or more modalities as compared with 31% of the NHSI negative group. Of the NHSI positive 51% had auditory hallucinations directly to the patient, 43% had visual hallucinations and 25% had olfactory hallucinations. These results are compared and contrasted with the very few similar observations made elsewhere.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6858710http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/17595
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Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1983 Mar;67(3):144-7Publisher
Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya;
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- Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) [10377]