Psychiatric morbidity of foreign students in Yugoslavia: a 25 year retrospective analysis.
Psychiatric morbidity of hospitalized foreign students in Yugoslavia was analyzed in a 25-year retrospective study and was compared to the psychiatric morbidity of a group of Yugoslav students hospitalized in the same psychiatric institutions, over the same time period. Results showed significantly higher rates of paranoid and depressive reactions amongst foreign students, and suggested correlation between their psychiatric morbidity and maladaptation to the new living conditions.
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Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, St. Louis, MO 63110.
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000349:Africa / Q000208:ethnology; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007393:International Educational Exchange; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D008877:Middle East / Q000208:ethnology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D015022:Yugoslavia / Q000453:epidemiology