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Demographic Differences in Functional Psychoses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Michael S. McCabe
Michael S. McCabe*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa College of Medicine, 500 Newton Road, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, U.S.A.
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Summary

Only Scandinavian investigators have reported on demographic aspects of reactive psychoses. Data from the National Health Service, Denmark, for age at first admission, sex, and length of stay in hospital in reactive, manic-depressive and schizophrenic psychoses are analysed. Differences in sex incidence ratios, age at first admission and length of stay are evident between the three psychoses. The differences noted are considered to provide indirect evidence supporting the separate diagnostic categories.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 127 , Issue 4 , October 1975 , pp. 320 - 323
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1975 

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