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Study Problems in Ugandan Secondary School Students: A Controlled Evaluation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Klaus K. Minde
Klaus K. Minde*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Makerere University, Kampala, uganda; Department of Psychiatry, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5G 1X8
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Recent reviews dealing with psychiatry in sub-Saharan Africa have stressed the overall similarity in the incidence of psychiatric conditions and their diagnostic distribution to those seen in other parts of the world (German, 1972; Giel and Van Luijk, 1969; German and Arya, 1969). All authors emphasize, however, that some clinical pictures seen in Africa, such as those of depression and anxiety states, vary from the manifestations one encounters in European and North American patients.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 125 , Issue 585 , August 1974 , pp. 131 - 137
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

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