Chu C C, Lee S Y, Sallach H S, Cçetingök M, Klein H E
Int J Soc Psychiatry. 1986 Autumn;32(3):65-71. doi: 10.1177/002076408603200309.
The symptomatology of Turkish urban and rural schizophrenic patients was compared in 94 consecutive hospital admissions. These were rated on two rating scales by psychiatrists, using a structured interview. Urban patients were more frequently anxious, tense, stiff, rigid, perseverating and depersonalized than rural patients; urban patients also exhibited more frequent symptoms of outbursts, blocking, thought pressure, depressed mood and somatic concern than their rural counterparts. Rural patients were more often withdrawn, disoriented, confused/delirious and lacking contact in communication than urban patients; rural patients also showed more frequent symptoms of flight of ideas and consciousness lapses than their urban counterparts.
