Am J Psychiatry 1982; 139:888-891
Copyright © 1982 by American Psychiatric Association
Racial and geographic differences in the psychopathology of schizophrenia
VR Adebimpe, CC Chu, HE Klein and MH Lange
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.
