Socioculrual factors for schizophrenia

Question 1

Main points

Answer 1

• Urbanicity
• Social isolation
• Ethnicity and discrimination
• ## Social class

Question 2

Main points for urbanicity

Answer 2

• High schizophrenia in urban than rural

- Pollution, infections and disease spread more easily

Question 3

Main points for social isolation

Answer 3

• People with schiz tend live solitary lives and have fewer friends
• Cant learn what behaviour is acceptable and what isn’t

Question 4

Main points for ethnicity and discrimination

Answer 4

• Afro-caribean communities have higher incidences of schizophrenia
• 2/3 in Birmingham hospitals were afro-caribean
• Same not seen in caribean
• May be due to stress
• White psychiatrists

Question 5

Main points for social class

Answer 5

• Higher incidence In lower class
• May be due to poor upbringing
• Poor communities behaviour seen as ill but in upper class seen as eccentric