title: Cultural factors and symptoms of schizophrenia, a comparative study in Malta and Poland.
abstract: The examinations comprised 120 cases of schizophrenia in Poland and 80 cases on Malta. Clinical analysis showed differences in symptomatology of the disease, delusions and hallucinations content, in methods of the treatment applied and in the prognosis--as a result of pathoplastic effect of cultural-racial and sociodemographic factors. In comparison with Polish patients Maltese schizophrenics showed a less diversified psychotic symptomatology.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine, Gdynia.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Masłowski
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008002:Libya / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male; D008319:Malta / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology