Social Psychiatry
Volume 16, Issue 1, 1981, Pages 43-51

Psychiatric disorders in selected immigrant groups in Camberwell (Article)

Bebbington P.E.* , Hurry J. , Tennant C.
  • a MRC Social Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom
  • b MRC Social Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom
  • c MRC Social Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom

Abstract

This paper reports on psychiatric disorder amongst West Indians and Irish-born residents of Camberwell in South London. National figures suggest high rates of severe functional disorders in West Indians with relatively few minor disorders. Among the Irish, however, mania is rare, schizophrenia shows high rates in women but not in men and the milder affective disorders are more common than in the native born (Cochrane 1977). The current study uses both hospital-based data from the Camberwell registrar and data from a community survey and essentially substantiates these findings. It is suggested that these persistent opposing patterns in these two groups of immigrants could be in large part explained by culturally determined patterns of response to adversity. © 1981 Springer-Verlag.

Author Keywords

[No Keywords available]

Index Keywords

Short Survey ethnic group United Kingdom central nervous system ethnic or racial aspects geographic distribution schizophrenia psychological aspect sex mental disease major clinical study epidemiology migration
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-0019363775&doi=10.1007%2fBF00578068&partnerID=40&md5=dd39da6a6d3fe30440d66f70676897d1
DOI: 10.1007/BF00578068
ISSN: 00377813
Cited by: 89
Original Language: English