Psychiatric morbidity in a tropical diseases unit.
A sample of 208 consecutive admissions to the Hospital for Tropical Diseases was screened for psychiatric illness. A psychiatric morbidity of 31-8% was found. If severe personality disorders are included in the figures then the overall psychiatric morbidity rises to 49-6%. The reasons for these findings are discussed.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006782:Hospitals, Special; D006801:Humans; D008131:London; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010272:Parasitic Diseases / Q000150:complications; D012923:Social Class; D014330:Tropical Medicine