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Study of delusions in Kenyan schizophrenic patients diagnosed using a set of research diagnostic criteria
Author(s) -
Ndetei and D. M.,
Singh A.
Publication year - 1982
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.1600-0447.1982.tb00929.x
Subject(s) - kenya , psychiatry , psychology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , delusion , clinical psychology , haven , medicine , law , mathematics , combinatorics , political science
Eighty‘psychotic’Kenyan patients of African origin were screened using the New Haven Schizophrenic Index (NHSI). Fifty‐one of these (64 %) were found positive. Delusions were found to be significantly more common ( P < 0.001) in the NHSI positive group than in the negative group. Sex and age had no effect on the distribution of delusions in general but level of education did. These findings are compared and contrasted with findings of similar investigations and some of their implications are discussed.