Psychiatric morbidity among university students in Egypt

During a nine-month period (1974-75), 1,050 students (846 male, 204 female) at Ain Shams University, Cairo, attended the Student Health Centre. Fifty-two per cent were referred there by their general practitioners, 5 per cent by their families and 3 per cent through their faculties; the remainder (4...

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Published inBritish journal of psychiatry Vol. 131; p. 149
Main Authors Okasha, A, Kamel, M, Sadek, A, Lotaif, Z B
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England 01.08.1977
Subjects
Egypt
Female
Humans
Male
Mental Disorders - epidemiology
Sex Factors
Students
Universities
Egypt
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Summary:During a nine-month period (1974-75), 1,050 students (846 male, 204 female) at Ain Shams University, Cairo, attended the Student Health Centre. Fifty-two per cent were referred there by their general practitioners, 5 per cent by their families and 3 per cent through their faculties; the remainder (41 per cent) were self-referred. Male patients represented 2-8 per cent of the male students, but female patients only 0-9 per cent of the female students. In faculties dealing with practical subjects the male-female ratio was higher than in those dealing with more theoretical subjects. The diagnoses included anxiety neurosis (36 per cent of the cases), schizophrenia (18 per cent), depression (15 per cent) and neurotic depression (12 per cent).
ISSN:0007-1250
1472-1465
DOI:10.1192/bjp.131.2.149