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A study of agoraphobic housewives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Dorothy Buglass ,
J. Clarke ,
A. S. Henderson ,
N. Kreitman  and
A. S. Presley
Dorothy Buglass
Affiliation:
From the MRC Unit for Epidemiological Studies in Psychiatry, Edinburgh
J. Clarke
Affiliation:
From the MRC Unit for Epidemiological Studies in Psychiatry, Edinburgh
A. S. Henderson
Affiliation:
From the MRC Unit for Epidemiological Studies in Psychiatry, Edinburgh
N. Kreitman*
Affiliation:
From the MRC Unit for Epidemiological Studies in Psychiatry, Edinburgh
A. S. Presley
Affiliation:
From the MRC Unit for Epidemiological Studies in Psychiatry, Edinburgh
*
3Address for correspondence: Dr N. Kreitman, MRC Unit for Epidemiological Studies in Psychiatry, University Department of Psychiatry, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh EH10 5HF.
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Synopsis

Thirty married agoraphobic women referred to out-patient clinics in Edinburgh were compared with ‘normal’ controls (selected from GP records and screened for the absence of psychiatric symptoms) matched on age, sex, social class and marital status. The agoraphobics' husbands were similarly compared with the husbands of the controls. On most measures of attitudes, behaviour, domestic organization and marital interaction, the 2 groups were strikingly similar.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , February 1977 , pp. 73 - 86
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1977

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