Psychiatric morbidity among Punjabi medical patients in England measured by General Health Questionnaire

I B Krause; R M Rosser; M L Khiani; N S Lotay

doi:10.1017/s0033291700017232

Psychiatric morbidity among Punjabi medical patients in England measured by General Health Questionnaire

Psychol Med. 1990 Aug;20(3):711-9. doi: 10.1017/s0033291700017232.

Authors

I B Krause¹, R M Rosser, M L Khiani, N S Lotay

Affiliation

¹ Academic Department of Psychiatry, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, London.

PMID: 2236381
DOI: 10.1017/s0033291700017232

Abstract

The 28-item GHQ was administered to 282 Punjabi and white British patients visiting two Health Centres in Bedford. We discovered that ethnicity is not significantly correlated with GHQ 'caseness', but that differences exist in somatic and depressive symptomatology. The discussion relates these findings to debates about the psychiatric morbidity of Asian immigrants and somatization.

Publication types

Comparative Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adult
Cross-Cultural Comparison*
Cross-Sectional Studies
Depressive Disorder / epidemiology
Emigration and Immigration
England
Ethnicity / psychology*
Female
Humans
Incidence
India / epidemiology
Male
Personality Tests*
Psychometrics
Psychophysiologic Disorders / epidemiology*
Somatoform Disorders / epidemiology*