The authors compared the psychopathology of black and white and of rural
and urban schizophrenic patients. Using a structured interview,
psychiatrists rated 273 schizophrenic patients consecutively admitted to
seven hospitals and mental health centers over 3 1/2 years. Results
indicate that important symptoms were more severe in black than in white
schizophrenic patients: black patients were more angry, impulsive,
hallucinating, dysphoric, and asocial. A greater number of important
symptoms were found to be more intense in rural than in urban schizophrenic
patients: rural patients were more angry, aggressive, silly, negativistic,
and uncooperative, but urban patients were more anxious, rigid, ambivalent,
and asocial.
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