01373nas a2200313   4500000000100000008004100001260001700042653001000059653002200069653002400091653003100115653001100146653001100157653001000168653001200178653000900190653002100199653001600220653001800236653002600254100001400280700001300294245005700307300001100364490000700375050001400382520064900396022001401045       1994                            d  c1994 Jul-Sep10aAdult10aAnxiety Disorders10aDepressive Disorder10aEmigration and Immigration10aFemale10aHumans10aIndia10aleprosy10aMale10aMental Disorders10aMiddle Aged10aPoverty Areas10aSocioeconomic Factors1 aVerma K K1 aGautam S00aPsychiatric morbidity in displaced leprosy patients.  a339-430 v66  aVERMA19943 a<p>One hundred confirmed leprosy patients, all of them migrated from elsewhere, were examined for psychiatric co-morbidity. Forty-six of them were from an 'ashram' and the others were from a slum area. 76% of the patients were found to be having psychiatric illness. Of these, 55% were having neurotic depression and 21% had anxiety neurosis. Single, unemployed, socio-economically backward and patients with physical deformities were suffering significantly more often with psychiatric symptoms. Psychiatric morbidity was found to be more frequent in the patients staying in slum than in those in the 'ashram' where they had some security.</p>  a0254-9395