James N. McCLURE

Suicide and the menstrual cycle: A review

Abstract The available literature on the relationship between phase of the menstrual cycle and suicidal behavior was reviewed. The methodological problems were discussed. Further, more rigorous studies seem desirable.

PERSONALITY, DEPRESSION AND HEADACHE TYPE

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A systematic study of psychiatric illness in freshman college students.

Abstract The majority of estimates of the rate of college student psychiatric illness has been based on data obtained from treated samples of students. 1,2 The biases inherent in treated samples have been extensively documented. Few studies have dealt with the occurrence of psychiatric illness in a randomly selected sample of students, a study design that avoids the problems of using a treated population. This study describes the psychiatric problems, during the freshman year, of such a randomly selected, prospectively studied sample of 158 college students. The questions to be answered by this report are: (1) What proportion of a college population have a psychiatric problem during the course of the freshman year? (2) What proportion will seek treatment? (3) What proportion of the ill group will seek treatment? (4) What is the predominant psychiatric disturbance seen?