Ethnic Differences in Psychiatric Symptoms Reported in Community Surveys
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TL;DR
A SCREENING instrument to measure psychiatric impairment was developed from the Midtown Manhattan Study, conducted in 1954, for use in community surveys and was used in one community survey of a representative sample of adults living in the Washington Heiglhts Health District of New York City and with another representative samples of adults from all five boroughs.
Abstract
A SCREENING instrument to measure psy- chiatric impairment was developed from the Midtown Manhattan Study (1), conducted in 1954, for use in community surveys.The instrument, containing 22 questions about symp- toms usually associated with psychiatric impair- ment (2), was used in one community survey of a representative sample of adults living in the Washington Heiglhts Health District of New York City and with another representative sam- ple of adults from all five boroughs of New York City.The results of these two surveys were analyzed to examine, in particular, the distribution of responses among ethnic subgroups.