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Psychiatric Morbidity Among Foreign Housemaids in Kuwait

Salel M. El-Hilu

Psychological Medicine Hospital, P.O. Box 4081, 13041 Safat, Kuwait

Rawhiya Mousa

Psychological Medicine Hospital, Kuwait

Hani Abdulmalek

Psychological Medicine Hospital, Kuwait

Nahed Kamel

Psychological Medicine Hospital, Kuwait

Mostafa Zohdi

Psychological Medicine Hospital, Kuwait

Ali Maher

Psychological Medicine Hospital, Kuwait

Mohammad Al-Aamriti

Psychological Medicine Hospital, Kuwait

First admission rates to the psychiatric hospital in Kuwait revealed that foreign housemaids as a whole had about five times the rate of Kuwaiti females. According to hospital diagnoses the housemaids had significantly more acute situational distur bances and mania, and less depressive illness and organic mental disorders. Regar ding schizophrenia and paranoid state there was no significant difference between the two groups. It is recommended that good interpreters should be appointed as part of an appropriate staffing of the psychiatric hospital.

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, Vol. 36, No. 4, 291-299 (1990)
DOI: 10.1177/002076409003600407
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