Nandi D N, Mukherjee S P, Boral G C, Banerjee G, Ghosh A, Sarkar S, Ajmany S
Br J Psychiatry. 1980 Jan;136:73-85. doi: 10.1192/bjp.136.1.73.
The authors made a field-survey of mental morbidity in all the tribal and caste groups residing in a cluster of villages in West Bengal, India, and found that, in each group, higher socio-economic classes had higher rates of mental morbidity. Different groups having a similar cultural pattern showed no significant difference in their rates of morbidity. Groups having different cultural patterns differed significantly in their rates of morbidity. In the tribal groups some neurotic disorders were absent.
作者对居住在印度西孟加拉邦一群村庄中的所有部落和种姓群体的精神疾病发病率进行了实地调查，发现每个群体中，社会经济地位较高的阶层精神疾病发病率更高。具有相似文化模式的不同群体在发病率上没有显著差异。具有不同文化模式的群体在发病率上有显著差异。在部落群体中，一些神经症性障碍并不存在。
