ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a prevalence analysis that designed to identify specific types of psychiatric syndrome occurring more commonly among community residents with use of general medical services, as compared to those with no recent use of these services. A key issue in the data analyses involved differences in the prevalence of specific psychiatric syndromes among individuals with and without recent use of general medical and specialty psychiatric services, as compared to other persons. Multiple logistic regression and discriminant function techniques have been used to hold constant or adjust for potentially confounding socio-demographic variables and also the co-occurrence of psychiatric syndromes. In the multivariate analyses, the dependent variables were use of general medical services and use of psychiatric services in the 6 months prior to interview. Reflecting the adult household population of eastern Baltimore, about 40 per cent of the respondents were blacks, with a small number in other ethnic or racial groups.
