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Epidemiology of Mental Disorders in Young Adults of a Newly Urbanised Area in Khartoum, Sudan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Sheikh Idris A. Rahim  and
Marianne Cederblad
Sheikh Idris A. Rahim*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum
Marianne Cederblad
Affiliation:
Department of Child and Youth Psychiatry, University of Lund, WHO Psychosocial Centre, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
*
∗University of Lund, Box 638, S-220 06 Lund, Sweden
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Abstract

Two hundred and four subjects, 22–35 years old, were selected from a surburban part of Khartoum. They were assessed using the Self-Rating Questionnaire, the Eysenck Personality Inventory, and a Sudanese rating scale of anxiety and depression. Socio-economic information was collected. A psychiatric interview and a medical examination were carried out. It was found that 40.3% had at least one psychiatric symptom, and 16.6% received clinical diagnoses according to DSM-III. The most common diagnoses were depressive illness (neurotic and endogenous) (8.4%) and generalised anxiety (3.4%). Alcohol abuse was very rare (0.4%). There was no sex difference.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 155 , Issue 1 , July 1989 , pp. 44 - 47
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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