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. 1984 Jul-Sep;26(3):185–193.

PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY IN AN URBAN SLUM-DWELLING COMMUNITY

B Sen 1,, DN Nandi 2, SP Mukherjee 3, DC Mishra 4, G Banerjee 5, S Sarkar 6
PMCID: PMC3011236  PMID: 21965983

SUMMARY

The present study concerns the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in a slum area in Calcutta and its relation to certain demographic and social variables. The survey was carried out by a team of psychiatrists by a door-to-door enquiry. Significant relationship of mental morbidity were found with age, sex, caste, socioeconomic status and family size.

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