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Title: Psychiatric morbidity among foreign housemaids in Kuwait.
Author: El-Hilu-SM; Mousa-R; Abdulmalek-H; Kamel-N; Zohdi-M; al-Aamriti-M
Abstract:
First admission rates to the psychiatric hospital in Kuwait revealed that foreign housemaids as a whole had about five times the rate of Kuwaiti females. According to hospital diagnoses the housemaids had significantly more acute situational disturbances
Journal: Int-J-Soc-Psychiatry. 1990 Winter; 36(4): 291-9