title: Review of the acute admissions of 442 foreign born in closed psychiatric wards (Antwerp, 1967-1975). Comparison to native borns for age, sex, descent and diagnosis.
abstract: After reviewing the literature on transcultural psychiatry, the admissions in the closed service of the Hospital Stuyvenberg in Antwerpen were analysed for 1967-1975. Immigrants were compared with other nationals, for age, sex and psychiatric diagnosis, with regard to patients born in Belgium. For the foreigners, statistical evaluation was done for age, sex, civil status, land of origin, and jewish religion. Interesting results were obtained for paranoid syndromes in patients originating from Eastern Europe and in menopaused women.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001530:Belgium; D002648:Child; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005006:Ethnicity; D005061:Europe, Eastern / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders; D008875:Middle Aged