N. Handal et Jh. Dodds, RATES OF FIRST HOSPITALIZATIONS FOR AFFECTIVE PSYCHOSES IN COSTA-RICA, Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 30(6), 1995, pp. 245-255
What demographic, geographic, and temporal factors characterize the ra
te of first hospitalizations for affective psychosis in Costa Rica? Th
is report presents graphically the first hospitalization rates for the
whole country of Costa Rica, with analysis of specific rates for the
subgroups by age, sex, marital status, level of education, occupation,
place of residence, and place of birth, as well as separate rates by
month and date of hospital admission, monopolar first admissions incre
ased slowly from the age of 10 to the age of 45 years, then ''exploded
'' to a peak between 55 and 65 years, then declined somewhat. The educ
ational group among men with the highest rate was the group with at le
ast some university education. Professionals, clerical workers, unskil
led laborers, and those with no occupation had high rates. Higher rate
s were also associated with being single, divorced, widowed, having no
occupation, and living in rural, coffee-growing areas that were not t
oo distant from the hospital.