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Feighner's symptom profile of alcoholism in a Kenyan general hospital.
(1984-05)
Eighty-three consecutive first-ever admissions to the general medical wards at the Kenyatta National Hospital ( KNH ), were screened for alcoholism using the Feighner's Research Diagnostic Criteria for Alcoholism ( FRDCA ...
Experiences from a marital-sex therapy clinic in Nairobi.
(1986-11)
Out of 100 first referrals to a newly started family/marital - sex therapy clinic in Nairobi, 52 cases were studied for sociodemographic characteristics, help-seeking pattern for their sexual problems, presentation of the ...
A study of some psychological factors in depressed and non-depressed subjects in a Kenyan setting.
(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 ...
Cross-cultural study of religious phenomenology in psychiatric in-patients
(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 comparative cross-cultural study of the frequencies of hallucination in schizophrenia.
(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 ...
Hallucinations in Kenyan schizophrenic patients.
(1983-03)
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 ...
Pattern of anxiety in a cross-cultural hospital population.
(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, ...
Psychiatric phenomenology across countries: constitutional, cultural, or environmental?
(1988)
Some literature on the significance of culture on psychiatric phenomenology and also literature on psychiatric phenomenology in immigrants, particularly in Great Britain, are reviewed. It is pointed out that paranoid and ...
A cross-cultural study of the frequencies of Schneider's first rank symptoms of schizophrenia
(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.
(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 ...