Psychiatric morbidity among Punjabi medical patients in England measured by General Health Questionnaire.
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.
Krause
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Academic Department of Psychiatry, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, London.
Rosser
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Khiani
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Lotay
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D000328:Adult; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004739:England; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D010556:Personality Tests; D011594:Psychometrics; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*