The prevalence of mental disorders was studied by means of an intensive census visiting method hi a large leprosy colony which is located at Jun-Ra-Nam Do, Go-HeUNg Goon, So-Rok Do. All the patients in the colony were 4,263 in number and majority of them showed very low socioeconomic state & educational level. This study was performed in JuneP 1973. & the following results were obtained. 1. 56 cases of schizophrenia, 2 cases of manic depressive psychoses, 22 cases of epilepsy, 14 cases of senile psychoses, 6 cases of oreganic brain syndrome and 4 miscellaneous cases were observed from the total 4, 263 patients。 Thus the prevalence rate was 1.314% for schizophrenia. 0.047% for manicde pressive psychoses, 0.516% for epilepsy, 0.328% for senile psychoses& the corrected prevalence rate was 1.754%, 0. 074%, 0.60% and 2.11%, respectively for the above 4 psychoses, 2. 61% of cases were more than 40 years old. Most cases showed stabilized, regressed mental state and their course is a chronic one. 3. Nearly 90% of cases had more than 5 years of morbid state and in only 4 cases the duration was less than 2 years. 4. Regular drug medication was performed in nearly one third of cases but half of the cases was left alone without any treatment. 5. In more than one half of the cases, physically handicapped states was observed. 6. Only 1/5 of the cases had a marrital life with their partner and the remainder lived alone.
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