Socio-Psychiatric Survey on Distribution and Aetiology of Psychiatric Disorder, 1969-1975; Aetiology of Depression in Women in an Urban Population

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The survey studies 114 female patients suffering from a recent onset of depression living in Camberwell and treated as psychiatric in- or out-patients. All were between 18 and 65. The year before admission' was studied in detail and all life events and difficulties occurring in this time systematically recorded. A comparison group of 458 women from the same general Camberwell population was selected at random and comparable material collected. In addition the presence of any psychiatric disorder was established and the date of any onset in the year before interview recorded. It was therefore possible to study the rate of life events and difficulties among a series of patients and among women developing <i>psychiatric caseness</i> in the general population. (All were <i>onset cases</i> of depression and few had received treatment from a psychiatrist). The women without psychiatric caseness in the general population were used as a comparison series to establish the usual rate of life events and difficulties amongnormal women'.

No sampling (total universe)

All women patients in Camberwell suffering from depression were included in the sample. A simple random sample of all women living in Camberwell aged 18 to 65 was drawn for the comparison series.

Face-to-face interview

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-1571-1
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Creator Brown, G. W., University of London, Bedford College, Department of Sociology
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 1981
Funding Reference Medical Research Council; Economic and Social Research Council; Foundations Fund for Research in Psychiatry
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Discipline History; Humanities
Spatial Coverage England