Prevalence of psychiatric morbidity among convicted inmates in a nigerian prison community

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 19-26

  Agbahowe, S A ^a   Ohaeri, J U ^b,d   Ogunlesi, A O ^c   Osahon, R ^a  

^a Federal Psychiatric Hospital   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^c Neuropsychiatric Hospital   (Nigeria)

^d St Giles Hospital   (Fiji)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CANNABIS;

HEALTH STATUS; MENTAL HEALTH; MORBIDITY;

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; DRUG ABUSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MENTAL DISEASE; MORBIDITY; PREVALENCE; PRISON; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOMATIZATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MORBIDITY; NIGERIA; PREVALENCE; PRISONERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

NIGERIA;

CANNABIS;

EID: 0031876979     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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