Psychopathology, Treatment Outcome and Attitude Toward Mental Illness in Mexican American and European Patients

Harry H. Lawson, Marvin W. Kahn and Elliott M. Heiman
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Harry H. Lawson: University of Arizona
Marvin W. Kahn: University of Arizona
Elliott M. Heiman: University of Arizona

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1982, vol. 28, issue 1, 20-23

Abstract: Lower socio-economic European American and Mexican American psychiatric in- patients were compared on degree of psychopathology, response to treatment and attitude toward mental illness and hospitalization. The Mexican American patients were proportionately under-represented, but did not differ from the European Americans in degree of psychopathology at admission nor in response to treatment — both groups showing a high degree of improvement by both MMPI and clinical judgement. However, the Mexican American patients did have a significantly more negative view of hospitalization and treatment, viewing it as controlling and restrictive which may account for their lower proportion in the patient population.

Date: 1982
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DOI: 10.1177/002076408202800103

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