SuRVEYS of psychiatric illness in the community are at present handicapped by the lack of
valid and reliable methods of case-identification. The widely varying estimates of psychiatric …

Hearing impairment and mental disorders are common among residents of nursing homes
and homes for the aged; however, the relationship between sensory deficit and psychiatic …

Method The current follow-up investigation is being carried out in all but two ofthe original
survey practices, in every case as nearly as possible three years from the date of the index …

In four provinces of Canada schizophrenic patients who had received psychiatric treatment
not less than 18 months and not more than 10 years earlier, were interviewed. Findings sug-…

The authors measured the social functioning of 147 chronic psychiatric patients using a rating
scale originally devised for use with the mentally retarded, the Adaptive Behavior Scale (…

A study of the diagnostic composition of the inpatient population of Ontario and Canadian
psychiatric facilities has shown an important change in hospital-treated illness over the period …

A RECENT morbidity survey of 46 practices in London confirmed the view that neurotic
illness constitutes a large problem for the general practitioner. Referral to a psychiatrist was …

… Ross, HE, & Kedward, HB Demographic and social correlates of psychogeriatric
hospitalization. Social Psychiatry, 1976, //, 121-126. Sainsbury, P., Costain, WR, & Grad, J. …

During the past two decades the reduction in the size of the mental hospital population in
this country has closely followed statistical predictions for bed requirements both in Canada …

The authors describe the previous studies of the stability of psychiatric diagnoses over time
that have found such diagnoses to be unreliable, stating that the assumptions underlying …