Psychiatric disorder in a Swedish and a Canadian community: An exploratory study

Leighton, Dorothea C.; Hagnell, Olle; Leighton, Alexander H.; Harding, John S.; Kellert, Stephen R.; Danley, Robert A.

doi:10.1016/0037-7856(71)90072-2

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“…Leighton and his co-workers launched massive psychiatric epidemiological studies in Nova Scotia (Leighton, Harding, Macklin, MacMillan & Leighton, 1963), Nigeria (Leighton, Lambo, Hughes, Leighton, Murphy, Macklin, 1963) and Sweden (Leighton, Hagnell, Leighton, 1971). The findings from these studies supported Leighton's notions about cultural disintegration.…”

Section: Contributions From Psychiatric Epidemiology and Psycho-sociamentioning

confidence: 97%

Sociocultural Foundations of Psychopathology: An Historical Overview of Concepts, Events and Pioneers Prior to 1970

Marsella¹

1993

Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review

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Section: Contributions From Psychiatric Epidemiology and Psycho-sociamentioning

confidence: 97%

Sociocultural Foundations of Psychopathology: An Historical Overview of Concepts, Events and Pioneers Prior to 1970

Marsella¹

1993

Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review

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“…Since the social class distribution in a population may influence the prevalence figures of various mental disorders, the fact that a major proportion of our study population belonged to social class I 1970-71 as compared with the nation as a whole (47) may be of certain importance to the difference in findings. In the Lundby area 1957 the majority of the inhabitants characterized themselves as belonging to the middle class, and only few identified themselves with the upper class (33).…”

Section: Distribution Of the Population By Social Classesmentioning

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Alcohol consumption and alcoholism in an urban population in central Sweden

Halldin

1985

Acta Psychiatr Scand

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A representative selection of 2,283 individuals, 18-65 years old, in "former" Stockholm County, were examined by psychiatrists in 1970-71. The total of non-participants was 12%. The alcohol consumption pattern and the prevalence of the diagnosis alcoholism for the last 12 months are reported. Significantly more men than women confirmed "very high" and "high" consumption, respectively. The diagnosis alcoholism was given to 4.8% men and 1.4% women. Significantly more women in social class I than in II and III, as significantly more men in social class I than in II stated "very high" or "high" consumption. Social consequences of alcohol consumption, in the form of entries in the Penal Register of the National Board of Excise (Kontrollstyrelsens straffregister) for the years 1965-71, were, on the other hand, found significantly more frequently among men in social class III than in social classes I and II.

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“…Similar results emerged when we considered the woman's or her husband's educational level, defined by the number of years at school or in further education. 1 The result is reminiscent of surveys by Leighton and his colleagues in Nova Scotia and Hagnell in Sweden who failed to find important social class differences in psychiatric disorder in rural populations (Leighton et al 1971). We therefore used type of dwelling group rather than social class as the major background variable for the analysis of social differentiation within the Hebrides.…”

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Psychiatric disorder in a rural and an urban population: 1. Aetiology of depression

1981

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SYNOPSISAn earlier survey of a random sample of women in Camberwell in South London has shown that the majority of new occurrences of depressive disorders were brought about by certain kinds of life event and ongoing difficulty (provoking agent) and that the risk was increased under these circumstances by the presence of certain other social factors (vulnerability factors). Working-class women were much more likely to develop depression because they experienced more of these factors. A new survey in a rural population in the Outer Hebrides has confirmed the importance of these factors in the genesis of depression, although provoking agents occurred much less frequently in this rural setting. However, integration into the traditional way of life, rather than a middle-class status, was related to a lower chance of developing depression, and this appears to be explained by the relationship of provoking agents and vulnerability factors to such integration in the Outer Hebrides, and to social class status in Camberwell.

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Psychiatric disorder in a Swedish and a Canadian community: An exploratory study

Cited by 30 publications

References 2 publications

Sociocultural Foundations of Psychopathology: An Historical Overview of Concepts, Events and Pioneers Prior to 1970

Sociocultural Foundations of Psychopathology: An Historical Overview of Concepts, Events and Pioneers Prior to 1970

Alcohol consumption and alcoholism in an urban population in central Sweden

Psychiatric disorder in a rural and an urban population: 1. Aetiology of depression

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