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The British Journal of Psychiatry 153: 56-64 (1988)
© 1988 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Depression and the physical environment. A study of young married women on a London housing estate

J Birtchnell, N Masters and M Deahl
MRC Social Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London.

A depression-screening instrument (DSI) was administered to all 25-34- year-old, British-born, married women registered with a health centre on a south-east London housing estate. A disproportionate number of high scorers lived in those dwellings with the highest disadvantagement score. The dwelling interiors of the high DSI scorers were significantly poorer in appearance compared with those of the low scorers. Significantly more of the high scorers (and of their husbands) described the estate as unpleasant, and bad for their children. They raised significantly more objections to other residents' (including children's) behaviour. Their complaints were only partly explicable in terms of their less favourable accommodation.


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