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Title: Socio-economic status and population density risk factors for psychosis : prospective incidence study in the Maltese Islands
Authors: Camilleri, Nigel
Grech, Anton
Taylor-East, Rachel
Keywords: Psychoses -- Malta -- Case studies
Psychoses -- Patients -- Case studies
Psychoses -- Patients -- Malta -- Social conditions -- Statistics
Issue Date: 2010
Citation: Grech, A., Camilleri, N. & Taylor East, R. (2010). Socio-economic status and population density risk factors for psychosis : prospective incidence study in the Maltese Islands. International Psychiatry, 7(3), 69-72.
Abstract: The aim of the study is to determine the incidence of patients suffering from psychosis and requiring admission to hospital. The study also intended to gain further epidemiological information, specifically in relation to population density and socio-economic status, as well as ethnicity, and to examine any differences between the six districts of the Maltese Islands. Based on the evidence from previous studies, Professionals hypothesized that a higher incidence of psychosis would be found in the lower socio-economic region, the more densely populated regions and among ‘irregular’ migrants.This was a prospective cross-sectional study of the incidence of psychosis in patients requiring admission to hospital. The sample comprised all patients newly admitted, with a diagnosis of psychosis, to a psychiatric ward at any of the three government hospitals between 1 May 2007 and 30 April 2008. There were no exclusion criteria related to age, gender or ethnicity.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/20891
ISSN: 1749-3676
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