Psychiatric Morbidity Among Foreign Housemaids in Kuwait

Salel M. El-Hilu, Rawhiya Mousa, Hani Abdulmalek, Nahed Kamel, Mostafa Zohdi, Ali Maher and Mohammad Al-Aamriti
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Salel M. El-Hilu: Psychological Medicine Hospital, P.O. Box 4081, 13041 Safat, Kuwait
Rawhiya Mousa: Psychological Medicine Hospital, Kuwait
Hani Abdulmalek: Psychological Medicine Hospital, Kuwait
Nahed Kamel: Psychological Medicine Hospital, Kuwait
Mostafa Zohdi: Psychological Medicine Hospital, Kuwait
Ali Maher: Psychological Medicine Hospital, Kuwait
Mohammad Al-Aamriti: Psychological Medicine Hospital, Kuwait

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1990, vol. 36, issue 4, 291-299

Abstract: First admission rates to the psychiatric hospital in Kuwait revealed that foreign housemaids as a whole had about five times the rate of Kuwaiti females. According to hospital diagnoses the housemaids had significantly more acute situational distur bances and mania, and less depressive illness and organic mental disorders. Regar ding schizophrenia and paranoid state there was no significant difference between the two groups. It is recommended that good interpreters should be appointed as part of an appropriate staffing of the psychiatric hospital.

Date: 1990
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DOI: 10.1177/002076409003600407

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