Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here for FREE ACCESS to this landmark database

CiteULike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references - click here to get started.

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Roy, C.
Right arrow Articles by Irvine, D.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

The Prevalence of Mental Disorders Among Saskatchewan Indians

Chunilal Roy

Mental Health Clinic, Swift Current, Saskatchewan

Adjit Choudhuri

Donald Irvine

Saskatchewan Hospital, North Battleford, Saskatchewan

Indian communities in Saskatchewan are undergoing social changes as a result of rapid growth in populations and a closer contact with the non-Indian communities. The effect of such changes may be reflected in the nature and extent of the mental health problems among the Indian populations. This paper is an attempt to understand such problems in Saskatchewan. Analysis of hospital first-admission statistics at the North Battleford psychiatric institution, for the period from 1961 to 1966, showed that the Indian sample contained significantly higher numbers of schizophrenics and epileptics. These findings prompted an active case-finding survey for the first time in Canada in an arbitrarily defined geographical area which contained 18 rural municipalities (non-Indian) and ten Indian reserves. Analysis of the data revealed that the prevalence of mental disorder was significantly higher in the Indian communities. Furthermore, the Indian sample contained significantly higher numbers of schizophrenics and mental retardates. Findings are discussed in terms of relevance to future cross-cultural psychiatric research and methodological problems.

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 1, No. 4, 383-392 (1970)
DOI: 10.1177/135910457000100410
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Schizophr BullHome page
D. K. Kinney, P. Teixeira, D. Hsu, S. C. Napoleon, D. J. Crowley, A. Miller, W. Hyman, and E. Huang
Relation of Schizophrenia Prevalence to Latitude, Climate, Fish Consumption, Infant Mortality, and Skin Color: A Role for Prenatal Vitamin D Deficiency and Infections?
Schizophr Bull, May 1, 2009; 35(3): 582 - 595.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 The Counseling PsychologistHome page
T. D. LaFromboise, J. E. Trimble, and G. V. Mohatt
Counseling Intervention and American Indian Tradition: An Integrative Approach
The Counseling Psychologist, October 1, 1990; 18(4): 628 - 654.
[Abstract]

Home page
 Transcultural PsychiatryHome page
M.E.K. Moffatt
Abstracts and Reviews : NEW DIRECTIONS IN PREVENTION AMONG AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE COMMUNITIES, edited by SPERO M. MANSON. 1982. Portland, Oregon: Oregon Health Sciences University, Department of Psychiatry. $14.95
Transcultural Psychiatry, January 1, 1984; 21(2): 139 - 141.
[PDF]