Psychiatric Morbidity Among Foreign Housemaids in Kuwait
- 1 December 1990
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in International Journal of Social Psychiatry
- Vol. 36 (4), 291-299
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002076409003600407
Abstract
First admission rates to the psychiatric hospital in Kuwait revealed that foreign housemaids as a whole had about five times the rate of Kuwaiti females. According to hospital diagnoses the housemaids had significantly more acute situational distur bances and mania, and less depressive illness and organic mental disorders. Regar ding schizophrenia and paranoid state there was no significant difference between the two groups. It is recommended that good interpreters should be appointed as part of an appropriate staffing of the psychiatric hospital.Keywords
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