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A community study of mental disorders among four aboriginal groups in Taiwan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Tai Ann Cheng  and
Mutsu Hsu
Tai Ann Cheng*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University and Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
Mutsu Hsu
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University and Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
*
1 Address for correspondence: Dr T. A. Cheng, Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University, I, Chang-Te Street, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
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Synopsis

In this paper background, objectives, methodology and a few preliminary findings of a comparative epidemiological study of mental disorders among four aboriginal groups in Taiwan are presented. The study includes both a cross-sectional sample survey (N = 993) and prospective cohort studies involving psychoses, minor psychiatric morbidity, alcoholism, suicide, and accidental death. The total response rate to the sample survey was 98·3%; respondents were found to be representative. A preliminary analysis found very high rates of death from suicide, accidents and chronic liver and lung disease with a previous history of alcoholism in many of these deaths. Implications of these findings and studies of risk factors of all these health problems and their relationships are discussed.

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Preliminary Communication
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , February 1992 , pp. 255 - 263
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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