Evaluation of prevalence of emotional low self esteem and neurosis in Poland in 1996
Kiejna, A.; Wojtyniak, B.; Trypka, E.; Stokwiszewski, J.; Łupiński, P.
Psychiatria Polska 34(6): 903-918
2000
ISSN/ISBN: 0033-2674 PMID: 11304883 Document Number: 517269
The paper presents psychiatric problems included in national, health interview survey, recommended by the WHO, carried out by the Central Statistical Office in Poland in 1996. Authors are going to estimate the prevalence of a bad frame of mind and neurosis among Polish adult people and try to appoint the relationships between psychiatric disorders and gender and place of residence. We estimated results in 49 provinces. There were significant differences between east and west Poland. People who live in eastern provinces have a worse psychological condition than western. Women have higher rate of these this psychiatric problems. We also found a major correlation between dissemination of a bad frame of mind and neurosis among men and women.