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KMID : 0368819770160010077
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Journal of the Korean Neuropsychiatr Association
1977 Volume.16 No. 1 p.77 ~ p.83
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A STUDY ON THE PREVALENCE OF MAJOR PSYCHOSES IN JINDO, KOREA
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Abstract
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In order to determine the prevalence rates of ajor psychoses in Imhoe-myon, Jindo, Chunnam, is survey was conducted using the intensive nsus visit method in March, 1976. Jindo is an land where the people seem to be very conservave and their economic & cultural backgrounds e based mostly on agriculture in spite of their cation.
Followings are the results obtained.
1) Twenty three schizophrenics, one manic pressive, twenty-four epileptics and twenty-two antally retarded were found among 14,049 inhabiats. The prevalence rates for schizophrenia. inic depressive illness, epilepsy and mental tardation were 0.16%, 0.007%, 0.17% and 0.15% respectively.
2) Many of the patients had a chronic course of the disorders; about half of the schizophrenics (43.4%), four-fifths of the epileptics (79.1%) and all cases of the retarded had illed for more than five years.
3) The economic status was generally low, for example, the arable land they had was behw 0.3 ha in fifteen schizophrenics (65.2%) and fourteen epileptics (58.3%).
4) More than half of the schizophrenics (69.6%) were abandoned in treatment and the most popular choice of treatment was shamanic practices, then the followers were herb medicine, acupuncture, drugs and hospitals in descending order.
5) Such unfavorable therapeutic environments and chronic, rejected situations of the patients strongly require establishing systematic plans by the nation.
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