title: Social factors and mental illness: an analysis of first admissions to a psychiatric hospital.
abstract: The authors have investigated all first admissions to a psychiatric hospital during a five year period (1972-1976) to determine the diagnostic socio-economic and demographic variables among these patients. Variables of age, sex, religion, education, occupation, income, domicile, family structure and size, and sibling position have been studied. A comparison of these variables has been made between neuroses and psychoses; and between schizophrenia and affective disorders. The significant variables are discussed in the context of socio-cultural practices in India.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D003469:Culture; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D010343:Patient Admission; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D012559:Schizophrenia; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors