Psychiatric disorders in general practice.
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چکیده
An attempt is made to document the prevalence of psychiatric disorder among the adult population of three general practices in Karachi. After a brief course in psychiatry we tried to identify broad diagnostic categories like psychosis, neurosis, anxiety-depression syndrome, psychosomatic and somatopsychic disturbances. Being aware of our limitations we can with confidence state that the prevalence of psychiatric disorder among the adult patients attending our practice is much higher than 12% which this study reports (JPMA 37 2, 1987).
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عنوان ژورنال:
- JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
دوره 37 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1987