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The British Journal of Psychiatry (1969) 115: 1323-1329. doi: 10.1192/bjp.115.528.1323
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Psychiatric Morbidity amongst a Uganda Student Population

G. ALLEN GERMAN M.B., Ch.B., M.R.C.P.E., D.P.M.1 and O. P. ARYA M.B., B.S., D.P.H., D.T.M. & H., D.I.H.2

1 Professor of Psychiatry, Makerere University College, Kampala, Uganda
2 College Medical Officer, Makerere University College, Kampala, Uganda

This is a study of all students who attended Makerere University College Health Service during the academic year 1966-7. Out of a total population at risk of 1,351, approximately 1,122 students (83 per cent) attended the health service. Of those, 121 (10.8 per cent) were deemed to be suffering from a psychiatric illness. In the case of male students, the estimated prevalence rate for psychiatric morbidity was 11.5 per cent, a figure similar to figures from British universities.

Attention is drawn to the pathoplastic effects on symptomatology of local cultural preoccupations, but it is noted that the basic diagnostic patterns are similar to those reported from British universities.

There appears to have been no significant change in the estimated prevalence rate for psychiatric morbidity at Makerere University College over the past seven years.

Submitted on November 13, 1968




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