title: Suitability of a socio-economic scale for hospital psychiatric population.
abstract: The Socio-economic scale devised by Gupta and Sethi (1978) was applied to 737 urban cases registered in the psychiatric out-patient department of a general hospital during the period of one year. Correlation and regression co-efficients were calculated for education, income, occupation and total scores. The scale seemed to be suitable for hospital psychiatric population.
authors.affiliation: Assistant Professor, Institute of Mental Health, Kilpauk, Madras-600 010.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ramanathan
authors.forename: G B
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Shantha
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Balan