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Can Psychiatric Nurses ‘Catch’ Schizophrenia?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Stephen J. Cooper ,
Stephen Best  and
David J. King
Stephen J. Cooper*
Affiliation:
Department of Mental Health, The Queen's University of Belfast
Stephen Best
Affiliation:
Department of Therapeutics and Pharmacology, The Queen's University of Belfast
David J. King
Affiliation:
Department of Therapeutics and Pharmacology, The Queen's University of Belfast
*
Whitla Medical Building, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7BL
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The incidence of schizophrenia among psychiatric and general trained nurses was investigated for the period 1955–1979 in Northern Ireland. No difference was found. These results do not support the hypothesis of schizophrenia as a horizontally transmitted infectious disease.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 151 , Issue 4 , October 1987 , pp. 546 - 548
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1987 

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