Browsing Journal Articles by Author "Vadher, A"

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    • A comparative cross-cultural study of the frequencies of hallucination in schizophrenia. 

      Ndetei David M.; Vadher, A (Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya;, 1984-12)
      The frequencies of auditory, visual and olfactory hallucinations as defined by Wing et al. were studied in schizophrenic patients of various groups treated in the same hospital. The diagnosis of schizophrenia was made by ...

    • Content of grandiose phenomenology across cultures 

      Ndetei David M.; Vadher, A (Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya;, 1985-07)
      The content of grandiose ideas and delusions in patients of various cultural groups admitted to a London psychiatric hospital were compared. There were no overall differences but certain trends were apparent. It was found ...

    • A cross-cultural comparative study of patterns of depression in a hospital-based population. 

      Ndetei David M.; Vadher, A (Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya;, 1984-07)
      In a study of Catego depressive syndromes, using the Syndrome Check List and the Catego programme, no significant differences in depression symptomatology frequencies were found in nine different cultural groups of patients ...

    • Cross-cultural study of religious phenomenology in psychiatric in-patients 

      Ndetei David M.; Vadher, A (Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya;, 1985-07)
      Case notes of patients from nine different cultural groups admitted to a London hospital were scrutinized for religious background and religious phenomenology. With the exception of preaching behaviour there were no ...

    • A cross-cultural study of the frequencies of Schneider's first rank symptoms of schizophrenia 

      Ndetei David M.; Vadher, A (Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya;, 1984-12)
      The Syndrome Check List (SCL) as detailed by Wing et al. (1) was used on patients belonging to various cultural groups admitted to a London hospital. On the basis of combined Catego diagnosis of schizophrenia and paranoid ...

    • Frequency and clinical significance of delusions across cultures. 

      Ndetei David M.; Vadher, A (Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya;, 1984-07)
      The pattern of delusions in a cross-cultural hospital population was studied. It was found that there were cultural differences in persecutory, grandiose and religious, and sexual and fantastic delusions, accounted for ...

    • Life events and depression in a Kenyan setting 

      Vadher, A; Ndetei David M. (Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya;, 1981-08)
      Thirty Kenyan patients of black African origin undergoing treatment for clinical depression in Nairobi, and 40 matched non-psychiatrically disturbed controls in the community were studies for life events using the Brown-Harris ...

    • Life events occurring before and after onset of depression in a Kenyan setting--any significance? 

      Ndetei David M.; Vadher, A (Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya;, 1984-04)
      In a controlled study of life events in depressed patients in Kenya it was found that the rate of life events was higher in the depressed group in the 27 weeks preceding the onset of depression but with a sharp increase ...

    • Pattern of anxiety in a cross-cultural hospital population. 

      Ndetei David M.; Vadher, A (Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya;, 1984-07)
      In a study of the frequencies of hospital diagnoses of anxiety or related conditions and the Catego syndromes and diagnoses of anxiety and related conditions it was found that with the exception of the syndrome of tension, ...

    • The relation between contextual and reported threat due to life events: a controlled study. 

      Ndetei David M.; Vadher, A (Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya;, 1981-12)
      Following the method of Brown and Harris 30 Kenyan patients suffering from depression and 40 community non-psychiatrically-disturbed controls were studied for contextual and reported threat due to short-term and long-term ...

    • A study of some psychological factors in depressed and non-depressed subjects in a Kenyan setting. 

      Ndetei David M.; Vadher, A (Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya;, 1982-09)
      Thirty Kenyan patients (15 consecutive first-ever referrals to the out-patient clinic and 15 consecutive first-ever admissions) of black African origin on chemotherapy for clinical depression (uncomplicated by organic or ...

    • Types of life events associated with depression in a Kenyan setting. 

      Ndetei David M.; Vadher, A (Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya;, 1982-08)