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Cross-Cultural Comparison: Psychiatric Admission of Asian and Indigenous Patients in Leicestershire

Amanullah Shaikh, MBBS, MRCPsych., DPM.

Adolescent and Family Psychiatry, Child Guidance Clinic, Collum Lane, Ashby, Scunthorpe, South Humberside DN16 2SZ

Sixty-nine Asian patients were admitted to the psychiatric hospitals of Leicester shire in 1978. A case-note comparison was made with sixty-nine matched indigenous control patients. Four aspects were studied in particular, which showed:

a) There was no significant difference in the number of compulsory admissions between Asian and indigenous patients.

b) The two groups did not differ in their length of stay in hospital.

c) The diagnoses given to the Asian patients were significantly different from those of the control group.

d) Major treatment received by the two groups differed according to the diag nostic labels but there was slightly increased use of Electro-convulsive Therapy in the Asian patients with a diagnosis of Schizophrenia.

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, Vol. 31, No. 1, 3-11 (1985)
DOI: 10.1177/002076408503100101
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