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Can Psychiatric Nurses ‘Catch’ Schizophrenia?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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The incidence of schizophrenia among psychiatric and general trained nurses was investigated for the period 1955–1979 in Northern Ireland. No difference was found. These results do not support the hypothesis of schizophrenia as a horizontally transmitted infectious disease.
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- Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1987
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