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The British Journal of Psychiatry (1974) 125: 450-451. doi: 10.1192/bjp.125.5.450
© 1974 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
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Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Illness in the Deaf

S. B. MAHAPATRA M.R.C.P., M.R.C.Psych.1

1 Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, 15 Hyde Terrace, Leeds, LS2 9LT

The prevalence of psychiatric and psychosomatic diseases was studied in patients who had become deaf from otosclerosis in adolescence or in adult life. Assessment of 49 deaf patients with bilateral hearing loss of 40 d.b. or more by Cornell Index N2 Questionnaire and psychiatric interview showed a significantly higher prevalence of psychiatric illness among the deaf. Among the deaf, depressive illness was found to be the predominant type of psychiatric illness. No significant difference emerged between the two groups in respect of psychosomatic illness.

Submitted on May 17, 1973






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