title: Sex and race of patients admitted for their first psychiatric hospitalization: correlates and prognostic power.
abstract: Much attention has been focused on the advantages enjoyed by white males in the general society. Are they similarly advantaged in a psychiatric population? Two hundred seventeen patients from two demographically heterogeneous catchment areas admitted to inpatient care during a 1-year period were interviewed using standardized procedures; 80% of the original sample was available for follow-up 2 years later. Race and sex showed no consistent pattern of relationships with psychiatric symptoms, disability, and outcome; being both white and male was not advantageous in terms of any of the characteristics examined.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002391:Catchment Area, Health; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D011379:Prognosis; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D012737:Sex Factors