Psychiatric Morbidity in an Arctic Urban Community
Principal Investigator: Sampath, Hugh (1)
Licence Number: 10045
Organization: none
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Issued: Jan 01, 1990
Project Team: Self

Objective(s): To review records of all in-patients and out-patients who were seen at the Frobisher Bay General Hospital during a five year period prior to private practitioners setting up in town; to examine in detail, records of patients who exhibited psychiatric symptoms;

Project Description: Dr. Sampath will study medical records at the Baffin General Hospital. The study will be concentrated on the five year period prior to the presence of private practitioners. He will compare the results to a similar study he conducted in 1968-69.