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The British Journal of Psychiatry 152: 793-798 (1988)
© 1988 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Decline in the diagnosis of schizophrenia among first contacts with psychiatric services in north-east Scotland, 1969-1984

JM Eagles, D Hunter and C McCance
Ross Clinic, Royal Cornhill Hospital, Aberdeen.

Annual age-standardised rates for first contacts with psychiatric services in the Aberdeen area from 1969 to 1984 were calculated for schizophrenia, paranoid states, reactive psychoses, all affective psychoses, mania, and depressive neuroses. Highly significant declines occurred in the diagnosis of schizophrenia and of depressive neuroses. No concomitant increase occurred. It is concluded that these results probably indicate that there has been a fall in the incidence of schizophrenia in North-East Scotland. This may have arisen due to changes in the mode of expression and/or the severity of all functional psychoses.


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