title: E1Socio-economic data concerning the early childhood and the actual life-situation of psychiatric out-patients.
abstract: By means of a standarized social psychiatric questionnaire which was developed from the AMP-system and which forms the basis for a standardized case history used in our outpatient clinic, a random sample of 500 ambulant patients from the years 1970 and 1971 were examined concerning their socio-economic data. Patients of the age group of 20-24 years were overrepresented (p less than 0,05) as well as patients of the lower socio-economic classes and patients whose parents were less than 20 years old at the time of the patients' birth. The structure of the family in childhood showed significant differences concerning patients with different social contacts and different diagnoses. Patients who grew up in big families have themselves a relatively large number of children and vice versa (p less than 0,01). A significant correlation (p less than 0,01) consists also between the number of siblings of the patients and the socio-economic class they belong to: Patients from the underprivileged socio-economic classes mostly grew up in big families.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D008423:Maternal Age; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010331:Paternal Age; D012801:Sibling Relations; D012923:Social Class; D012924:Social Conditions; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
vernacular_title: Sozioökonomische Daten zur frühen Kindheit und aktuellen Lebenssituation von psychiatrischen Poliklinikpatienten