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Socio‐demographic correlates of schizophrenia, affective psychoses and neuroses in a clinic in India
Author(s) -
Varma V. K.,
Wig N. N.,
Murthy R. Srinivasa,
Misra A. K.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1980.tb00879.x
Subject(s) - caste , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychiatry , psychology , socioeconomic status , demography , medicine , clinical psychology , population , sociology , linguistics , philosophy
Of a total of 5,343 patients seen during four calendar years at the adult psychiatric outpatients’clinic of a teaching hospital in India, patients with schizophrenia, affective psychoses and neuroses were compared with one another regarding distribution of socio‐demographic variables. Women with an urban background and higher socio‐economic status were proportionately more numerous amongst neurotics. Schizophrenics were youngest and more often single. Patients with affective psychoses were older, usually married, had the lowest educational level and most often a rural background, and were from relatively lower socio‐economic strata. Also the Sikh religion and Jat caste were significantly more preponderant amongst affective psychotics. This finding is consistent with the reported distribution of ABO blood groups in affective psychotics and in Jat Sikhs, and suggests a genetic basis for the greater representation of Jats and Sikhs amongst affective psychotics.