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Social class, underprivileged areas and psychiatric disorder in the city of Stoke‐on‐Trent
Author(s) -
Platt C.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1986.tb01253.x
Subject(s) - social class , psychiatry , test (biology) , psychiatric hospital , medicine , psychology , demography , sociology , political science , law , paleontology , biology
A survey of psychiatric disorder, bused on hospital inpatients records, was conducted in ihe City of Stoke‐on‐Trent, England for the year 1983. This was used to test ihe hypothesis that areas of lower social class and greatest underprivilege would display higher rates of inpatient admissions for psychiatric disorder than the more privileged areas of the city. The results confirmed a significant positive correlation between extent of underprivilege of an area and rates of inpatient admissions. The link between lower social class and mental disorder was not directly demonstrated.