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Psychiatric morbidity through 25 years in a socially healthy population individually defined at the outset
Author(s) -
EssenMöller E.,
Hagnell O.,
ÖJesjö L.
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.tb07669.x
Subject(s) - census , population , incidence (geometry) , personality , psychiatry , repetition (rhetorical device) , medicine , demography , psychology , social psychology , environmental health , sociology , linguistics , philosophy , physics , optics
In 1947 a medicopsychological census was performed in a South Swedish rural population numbering 2550 inhabitants. Almost every inhabitant could be reached and subjected to a semistructured interview which was then supplemented by systematic outside information. Among other things, we tried to rate subjectively the personality of every individual, even those who were socially healthy. The results were published by Essen‐Möller et al. in 1956. After ten and twenty‐five years, respectively, the surviving inhabitants were again interviewed by other psychiatrists ( Hagnell & Öjesjö ) irrespective of present domicile, and information was collected regarding those deceased. The meantime incidence of mental disorder was registered. The results from the first of these repetitions were published by Hagnell in 1966, and those from the second repetition are now under processing. Some probings for differential risks according to the classification of the outset are presented.