The British Journal of Psychiatry (1970) 117: 445-446. doi: 10.1192/bjp.117.539.445
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The Prevalence of Nail-biting in Normal and Abnormal Populations

BRIAN R. BALLINGER M.A., B.M., B.Ch., M.R.C.P.E., D.P.M.1

1 Senior Registrar, Dundee Psychiatric Service, Royal Dundee Liff Hospital, Liff, By Dundee

Members of the normal population and patients in a mental deficiency hospital and a psychiatric hospital were examined for evidence of nail-biting. A high prevalence was found in all populations, particularly under the age of 40. It is suggested that nail-biting is not an important psychiatric symptom.

Submitted on January 14, 1970




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