dc.contributor.author | Farahani, Mnubi M | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-06-03T14:20:32Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-06-03T14:20:32Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1987 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Degree of Master of Medicine (psychiatry) | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/11295/28799 | |
dc.description | This dissertation is presented in part
fulfilment for the Degree of Master of
Medicine (psychiatry) - 1987 of the
University of Nairobi | en |
dc.description.abstract | This project presents a prospective study of 151
consecutive court referrals examined for mental status
before or during trial over a period of thirty weeks.
A formal psychiatric diagnosis was made on 119 (78.8%).
As in similar studies in this country and elsewhere the
majority of the referrals were males (84.8%) and young.
57% had at least one previous admission to hospital for
mental illness and 41.7% had at least one ,previous
involvement with the law. The referrals committed
a wide variety of offences varying from vagrancy and
trespass to robbery with violence and murder. Common
crimes committed were vagrancy, stealing and being in
possession of cannabis sativa in that order. Schizophrenia
(28.9%) featured more than any other diagnostic category
though due to methodological differences, this proportion
is rather low compared to other local findings. The
results show that there was no direct relationship
between any diagnostic category and any typ~ of crime.
Methods suggested by the author, on how to reduce
criminality among mentally ill people are mainly those
directed towards intensifying the. present, communi ty
psychiatric serVices and family life education in schools.
Along with these, areas of future research have been
suggested.
The results of validating Self-Rating-Questionnaire
and Standard-Psychiatric-Interview diferred is that. ,
there were 77.0% true positives and 23.0Z false positives.
The author has suggested a reason to account for this
big difference. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.title | A prospective study of court referrals to a forensic psychiatric clinic at the maximum security unit Mathari Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya, February - September 1986 | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
dc.description.department | a
Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, ; bDepartment of Mental Health, School of Medicine,
Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya | |
local.publisher | School of Medicine | en |