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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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Content of grandiose phenomenology across cultures
(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 ...
The relation between contextual and reported threat due to life events: a controlled study.
(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 cross-cultural comparative study of patterns of depression in a hospital-based population.
(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 ...