Cultural factors and symptoms of schizophrenia, a comparative study in Malta and Poland
Masłowski, J.
Bulletin of the Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine in Gdynia 39(3-4): 253-264
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0324-8542 PMID: 3270588 Document Number: 318465
The examinations comprised 120 cases of schizophrenia in Poland and 80 cases on Malta. Clinical analysis showed differences in symptomatology of the disease, delusions and hallucinations content, in methods of the treatment applied and in the prognosis--as a result of pathoplastic effect of cultural-racial and sociodemographic factors. In comparison with Polish patients Maltese schizophrenics showed a less diversified psychotic symptomatology.