PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY AMONG PUNJABI MEDICAL PATIENTS IN ENGLAND MEASURED BY GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE

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KRAUSE, IB [1 ]
ROSSER, RM [1 ]
KHIANI, ML [1 ]
LOTAY, NS [1 ]
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[1] UNIV COLL & MIDDLESEX SCH MED, ACAD DEPT PSYCHIAT, LONDON, ENGLAND
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10.1017/S0033291700017232
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B849 [应用心理学];
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040203 ;
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The 28-item GHQ was administered to 282 Punjabi and white British patients visiting two Health Centres in Bedford. We discovered that ethnicity is not significantly correlated with GHQ ‘caseness’, but that differences exist in somatic and depressive symptomatology. The discussion relates these findings to debates about the psychiatric morbidity of Asian immigrants and somatization. © 1990, Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved.
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