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Psychiatric Morbidity Among University Students in Egypt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Ahmed Okasha ,
M. Kamel ,
A. Sadek ,
F. Lotaif  and
Z. Bishry
Ahmed Okasha
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Unit, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
M. Kamel
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Unit, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
A. Sadek
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Unit, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
F. Lotaif
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Unit, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Z. Bishry
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Unit, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
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Summary

During a nine-month period (1974–75), 1,050 students (846 male, 204 female) at Ain Shams University, Cairo, attended the Student Health Centre. Fifty-two per cent were referred there by their general practitioners, 5 per cent by their families and 3 per cent through their faculties; the remainder (41 per cent) were self-referred.

Male patients represented 2·8 per cent of the male students, but female patients only 0·9 per cent of the female students. In faculties dealing with practical subjects the male-female ratio was higher than in those dealing with more theoretical subjects. The diagnoses included anxiety neurosis (36 per cent of the cases), schizophrenia (18 per cent), depression (15 per cent) and neurotic depression (12 per cent).

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 131 , Issue 2 , August 1977 , pp. 149 - 154
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 1977 

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