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The Relationship Between Marital Status and the Risk of Psychiatric Referral

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Norma C. Robertson
Norma C. Robertson*
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Department of Mental Health, Research Unit, Cornhill Road, Aberdeen AB9 2ZX
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There have been many studies of the incidence with regard to marital status of admissions to mental hospital. Each has reported the same pattern of highest rates for the divorced, followed by the widowed and single and lowest rates for the married, the pattern being the same for both sexes (Adler, 1953; Brooke, 1963; Dayton, 1940; Frumkin, 1955; Malzberg, 1964; Norris, 1956; Ødegaard, 1946; Stevens, 1969; Thomas and Locke. 1963).

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 124 , Issue 579 , February 1974 , pp. 191 - 202
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

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