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Psychosis with good prognosis in Afro-Caribbean people now living in the United Kingdom
- Authors:
- McKENZIE Kwame, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 18.11.95, 1995, pp.1325-1327.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
To compare the course and outcome of psychotic illness in a group of Afro-Caribbean patients resident in the United Kingdom and a group of white British patients. Afro-Caribbean patients in the United Kingdom have a better outcome after psychiatric illness than to do white people. The combination of high incidence and more benign course of illness of psychotic illness in this group may be due, at least in part, to a greater exposure to precipitants in the social environment.
The impact of home assessment on depression in the elderly: a clinical trial
- Authors:
- COLE Martin G., et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 10(1), January 1995, pp.19-23.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reports on a clinical trial to determine if home assessment was more effective than clinic assessment in eliciting useful clinical information and in reducing depression, anxiety, functional disability and social isolation among elderly depressed patients referred to an outpatient clinic. The trial failed to prove that home assessment improved the assessment or the outcome of the elderly patients in this sample.