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The British Journal of Psychiatry 151: 546-548 (1987)
© 1987 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Can psychiatric nurses 'catch' schizophrenia?

SJ Cooper, S Best and DJ King
Department of Mental Health, Queen's University of Belfast.

The incidence of schizophrenia among psychiatric and general trained nurses was investigated for the period 1955-1979 in Northern Ireland. No difference was found. These results do not support the hypothesis of schizophrenia as a horizontally transmitted infectious disease.




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