Psychiatric disorders in a developing community as reflected by archival material.
We surveyed the clinical records kept at the outpatient psychiatric clinic at the Umtata Hospital, Transkei. The four commonest psychiatric disorders diagnosed at the clinic were schizophrenia, depression, epilepsy, and anxiety states. Other diagnoses included alcoholism, hysteria, confusional states and organic brain syndromes.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology; D003906:Developing Countries; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000453:epidemiology; D012737:Sex Factors; D013019:South Africa