Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Indian J Psychiatry. 1981 Jul;23(3):219-23.
A psychiatric morbidity study of a general hospital outpatient department population in Sri Lanka was done.A two stage sampling method was used. Questions which differentiated the psychiatrically morbid group were identified. The disease pattern was compared and contrasted with that presenting at psychiatric facilities in the area.Neurotic illness, the commonest being hypochondriasis was found to predominate in the general outpatient psychiatrically ill population in contrast to the population at in and out patient psychiatric facilities where schizophrenia was the major diagnostic category.
斯里兰卡一家综合医院门诊部患者的精神疾病患病率研究采用了两阶段抽样方法。确定了区分精神疾病患者的问题。并对该疾病模式与该地区精神科设施就诊患者的疾病模式进行了比较和对比。在综合门诊精神疾病患者中，神经症最为常见，以疑病症为主，而在住院和门诊精神病设施就诊患者中，精神分裂症则是主要的诊断类别。
