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The British Journal of Psychiatry 130: 19-22 (1977)
© 1977 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

The role of stress as a precipitating factor of psychiatric illness

AP Schless, A Teichman, J Mendels and JN DiGiacomo

Fifty-six psychiatric patients were interviewed to obtain a record of life events preceding admission to hospital, using a modified version of the Schedule of Recent Experiences. Two control groups were studied for comparison: medical and surgical in-patients and a "normal" population studied independently by Myers. Psychiatric patients reported a significantly larger number of events than the medical- surgical patients, who, in turn, reported significantly more events than the "normal" population. There were no significant differences in the specific life event histories between groups.




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