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Psychosomatic Medicine 24:352-356 (1962)
© 1962 American Psychosomatic Society

Prevalence and Distribution of Psychosomatic Conditions in an Urban Population According to Social Class

A Discussion of the Epidemiological Method

BENJAMIN PASAMANICK M.D.1

1 Research Division, Department of Psychiatry, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

The findings on rates and socioeconomic distributions of some "psychosomatic" conditions in the "Midtown" study of Rennie and Srole and the Baltimore Commission on Chronic Illness Survey are compared. Marked disparities are described and attributed to the interview method used in the Midtown study. The Baltimore study had found the same types of disparities when it compared findings on household interviews with clinical evaluations on the same individuals, indicating that the interview method is of questionable validity in household surveys of chronic disease.

Submitted on July 31, 1961






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