COMPARATIVE CLINICODEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA IN PATIENTS LIVING IN URBAN AND RURAL CONDITIONS (DATA OF AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL-STUDY)

  • 1 January 1981
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 81  (5) , 729-734
Abstract
Results of a comparative clinico-epidemiological study carried out on a representative group of schizophrenic patients living in towns and rural districts of the Vinnitsa Region (the Ukraine, USSR) are presented. The comparison of the urban and rural patients made with regard to many clinical and demographic characteristics showed that the groups being analyzed did not differ substantially in the age at the disease onset, and were analogous in the distribution of the disease onset age as regards the patients'' sex and the disease pattern (earlier onset of the disease in males, prevalence of the early onset of the sluggish and malignant forms). In the patient populations being examined certain differences in the prevalence of some particular forms of the disease were revealed. This can be explained by some peculiarities of the population''s tolerance and the level of the work of the psychiatric services in town and country.

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