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Psychoses in Norwegians with a Background of Higher Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Kjell Noreik*
Affiliation:
Gaustad Psychiatric Hospital
Örnulv Ödegård*
Affiliation:
Gaustad Psychiatric Hospital; University of Oslo
*
Social Psychiatry Research Institute, Gaustad Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Social Psychiatry Research Institute, Gaustad Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Extract

In 1963 Ödegård published a catamnestic study of the 5,010 boys and girls who graduated (i.e. left after obtaining the “graduation certificate” by examination) from the high-schools (Gymnasiums) of Norway 1916–20. When this population group was followed until 1950, 117 were found to have been admitted to psychiatric hospitals for a psychosis. This material proved too small for a detailed statistical analysis, and the conclusions, although interesting and suggestive, remained inconclusive.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1966 

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