Psychiatric disorder in an adult training centre and a hospital for the mentally handicapped

1 August 1977

journal article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychological Medicine

Vol. 7 (3) , 525-528
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700004505

Abstract

Synopsis: Seventy-five mentally handicapped adult individuals attending a training centre were compared with 75 adult patients in a mental subnormality hospital using a standardized psychiatric interview. Ten of the individuals at the training centre were rated in the pathological range for overall psychiatric disturbance compared with 23 patients in hospital. Details are presented for the various psychiatric symptoms.

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