Study of delusions in Kenyan schizophrenic patients diagnosed using a set of research diagnostic criteria
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1982-09Author
Ndetei David M.
Singh, A
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Eighty 'psychotic' Kenyan patients of African origin were screened using the New Haven Schizophrenic Index (NHSI). Fifty-one of these (64%) were found positive. Delusions were found to be significantly more common (P less than 0.001) in the NHSI positive group than in the negative group. Sex and age had no effect on the distribution of delusions in general but level of education did. These findings are compared and contrasted with findings of similar investigations and some of their implications are discussed.
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/whalecom0/pubmed/7136839http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/17599
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Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1982 Sep;66(3):208-15Publisher
Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya;
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- Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) [10378]