Open AccessPsychopathology in a migrant population visiting a psychiatric outpatient clinic in Punjab, India
Author(s) -
Navkiran S. Mahajan,
Jaspreet Kaur,
Ramit Mahajan
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
indian journal of social psychiatry (online)/indian journal of social psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2454-8316
pISSN - 0971-9962
DOI - 10.4103/0971-9962.162029
Subject(s) - neuropsychiatry , psychiatry , psychopathology , acculturation , mood disorders , mood , first generation , population , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , medicine , risk factor , psychology , immigration , anxiety , environmental health , archaeology , history
Background: Migration is a risk factor for psychosis in international migrants. Objectives: We compared the psychiatric morbidity in first and second generation interstate migrants in India. Methods: Psychiatric morbidity was assessed in 18-64-year-old first and second generation migrants of both the gender using Mini International Neuropsychiatry Interview. Total 70 subjects were included in the study. Males and females of both the generation compared. Results: Mood disorders are found to be most common disorder in second generation migrants. Where females of second generation migrants have a major depressive episode with melancholic features, as compared to males who have manic episode significantly higher in second generation migrants. Conclusion: Migration is a risk factor for mood disorders especially in second generation migrants. As adversity of migration, discrimination, and acculturation faced from birth and early life leads to higher rates of psychiatry morbidity in second generation migrants