Patterns of psychiatric illness

This is a retrospective study of all first admissions to two psychiatric facilities in Kaduna from 1st January 1976 to 31st December 1979. The conclusion from the findings was that the typical individual in Kaduna State who is at most serious psychiatric risk, which may warrant admission, is a young man in his productive years. He is married, self-employed, of low or no education, and a city dweller. As expected, most patients are Hausa-Fulani-Kanuri by ethnic origin and Muslim, the prominent religion of the area.