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Psychosis in Migrants from the Indian Subcontinent and English-Born Controls

A Preliminary Study on the use of Psychiatric Services

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Sunjai Gupta
Sunjai Gupta*
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF; and Department of Psychological Medicine, King's College Hospital, London
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Abstract

A cohort of first-generation Asian immigrants who received a diagnosis of a functional psychosis at the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals were compared with an English-born control group. The Asians were found to have spent a lower total percentage of time in the two hospitals, had fewer in-patient admissions per year, and had a shorter average duration of stay in hospital than the matched controls.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 159 , Issue 2 , August 1991 , pp. 222 - 225
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Copyright © 1991 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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