Mexican-American Patients Research Articles

A comparison of MMPI scores of Anglo- and Mexican-American psychiatric patients.

A comparison of MMPI scores of Anglo- and Mexican-American psychiatric patients.

Pemphigus vulgarisand disseminated coccidioidomycosis

A Mexican-American patient with pemphigus vulgaris developed fatal disseminated coccidioidomycosis while on immunosuppressive therapy with systemic corticosteroids and azathioprine. Immunosuppressed patients should be carefully monitored for coccidioidomycosis as well as other systemic mycoses.

Communication problems between rural Mexican-American patients and their physicians: description of a solution.

Some of the unique communication problems that occur between rural Mexican-American patients and their private physicians are outlined. The authors discuss the disparity between the types of behavior physicians expect from their patients and the kinds of behavior that Mexican-American patients desire from their physicians. An effective procedure used by a group of physicians in eastern Washington to resolve some of these differences is described.

Lateness of contraception among recipients of subsidized family planning service.

Lateness of contraception among recipients of subsidized family planning service. C F BennettCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.60.11.2110 Published Online: August 29, 2011

8. North America

Much interest has been shown of late in the psychiatric problems of members of American subcultures. The materials to be presented in this section are concerned with American Indians, Mexican-Americans, Japanese-Americans, and Chinese-Americans. J. H. SHORE et al. conducted a psychiatric epidemi ological study in a small Indian fishing village in the State of Washington. They conclude that poverty and cultural change combine to produce the increased psychiatric morbidity in this village. A parallel study carried out by this group led to the establishment of a community mental health consul tation program in the same village. P. E. TERMANSEN, a psychiatrist, and J. RYAN, an anthropologist, conducted a mental and physical health survey of British Columbia Indians and non-Indian controls. Their study was three- pronged : it included a survey of general practitioners, a study of hospital admissions (charts and interviews), and a community survey of an urban Salish Indian reserve. R. JESSOR and his multidisciplinary team, composed of two psychologists, an anthropologist, and a sociologist, attempted to establish a theory of deviant behavior through a sociopsychological methodology applied to expressions of alcohol abuse in three U.S. cultures (Anglo-American, Spanish-American, and American Indian). D. H. STOKER et al. compared Anglo-American and Mexican-American female patients undergoing psycho therapy and describes differences noted between the two groups. R. B. EDGERTON et al. explored the relative importance of folk psychotherapy— curanderismo—among Mexican-Americans in East Los Angeles. They found that curanderismo in East Los Angeles has lost its traditional, dramatic, cere monial quality and that nowadays few Mexican-Americans turn to curanderos for help. The next paper of this section deals with Japanese-Americans. G. M. MATSUMOTO et al. compared the magnitude of ethnic identification among three generations of Japanese-Americans in Honolulu, Hawaii, with a previous similar study carried out in Seattle, Washington. Their tool of in vestigation was the Ethnic Identity Questionnaire. Finally P. G. BOURNE, as part of a broader psychiatric study of the Chinese in San Francisco, reports on suicide among them.

RORSCHACH AND TAT RESPONSES OF NEGRO, MEXICAN-AMERICAN, AND ANGLO PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS.

Abstract The Rorschach and Thematic Apperception Projective Test responses of 75 Anglos, Negroes, and Mexican-American patients on the psychiatric unit of a Veterans Administration General Medical and Surgical Hospital were compared. The subjects were a random sample of non-psychotic male veterans whose ages, educational backgrounds and occupational levels were quite similar. A number of statistically significant differences were found between the groups, with most distinct differences on the Rorschach appearing on the measures of hostility. The TAT pointed up differences between the Mexican-Americans and the other two groups in themes of family unit, and in their characterization, but more particularly of father-son and mother-son relationships. This TAT finding possibly demonstrates the persistence of Mexican-American cultural values regarding interpersonal. relationships within the family. Results of this study suggest the utility of projective measures in the formulation of culture and personality theories.