Rate of psychiatric morbidity in a metropolitan county jail population.
Rate of psychiatric morbidity in a metropolitan county jail population.
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大都市县监狱人口的精神疾病发病率。
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10.1176/ajp.133.12.1439
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1976
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J. Petrich
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作者：
J. Petrich
作者描述了122名监狱囚犯在等待审判时接受检查的社会精神特征，其中80%被指控犯有重罪。精神疾病的总患病率估计为4.6%。患者样本年龄明显较大，包含的少数民族男性明显多于监狱人口。被诊断为精神分裂症的患者中有36%因轻罪指控而被捕。51%的男性被诊断为药物依赖，但只有15%的女性被诊断为药物依赖。精神病的诊断更频繁，酗酒，焦虑症，反社会人格的频率低于使用类似的诊断标准的监狱人口的研究。
The author describes social-psychiatric characteristics of 122 jail inmates examined while awaiting trail, 80% of them on felony charges. The estimated overall rate of psychiatric illness was 4.6%. The patient sample was significantly older and contained significantly more minority group men than the jail population as a whole. Thirty-six percent of the patients diagnosed as schizophrenic were arrested on misdemeanor charges. Drug dependency was diagnosed in 51% of the men but in only 15% of the women. Psychosis was diagnosed more frequently and alcoholism, anxiety neurosis, and antisocial personality less frequently than in studies of prison populations using similar diagnostic criteria.