6. North America

• Published in: Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 1969
• Subjects: General Medicine; Cree indians
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/136346156900600119; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/136346156900600119

HORAGIO FABREGA, JON D. SWARTZ, and CAROLE ANN WALLACE use Anglo, Negro, and Mexican schizophrenics in precisely matched samples to explore the significance of cultural background in determining the symptomatology of mental illness. The hypothesis that urban migration, especially among minority groups, is a factor causing psychological stress, which in turn may be reflected by the development of hypertension among migrants, is tested by BRAXTON M. ALFRED, using a modification of the Cornell Medical Index administered to 144 Navaho men who migrated to Denver, Colorado. Little psychiatric research has been directed toward the evaluation of mental health and mental illness among Canadian Indians. The Cree Indians living in reserves in north-west Saskatchewan are the subject of a preliminary study by CHUNILAL ROY, who describes the characteristics of fifty-one mentally ill Indians admitted to the Saskatchewan Hospital at North Battleford between 1961 and 1966.