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Psychiatric morbidity among Punjabi medical patients in England measured by General Health Questionnaire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

I-B. Krause ,
R. M. Rosser ,
M. L. Khiani  and
N. S. Lotay
I-B. Krause
Affiliation:
Academic Department of Psychiatry, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, London
R. M. Rosser*
Affiliation:
Academic Department of Psychiatry, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, London
M. L. Khiani
Affiliation:
Academic Department of Psychiatry, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, London
N. S. Lotay
Affiliation:
Academic Department of Psychiatry, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, London
*
1Address for correspondence: Professor R. M. Rosser, Academic Department of Psychiatry, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, Middlesex Hospital, Mortimer Street, London WIN 8AA.
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Synopsis

The 28-item GHQ was administered to 282 Punjabi and white British patients visiting two Health Centres in Bedford. We discovered that ethnicity is not significantly correlated with GHQ ‘caseness’, but that differences exist in somatic and depressive symptomatology. The discussion relates these findings to debates about the psychiatric morbidity of Asian immigrants and somatization.

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Psychological Medicine , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , August 1990 , pp. 711 - 719
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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