- MS-13-86, Box 31, Folder 2
- File
- 1995
File includes copies of "A Survey of General Physicians : Manual for Participating General Practitioners" and "Appendix A : Nomenclature and Classification in the Stirling County Study."
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- MS-15-11.2020-016, Box 1, Folder 5
- File
- 1994
File contains one copy of the 1994 GayLine annual report.
- MS-15-11.2020-016, Box 1, Folder 3
- File
- 1992
File contains one copy of the 1992 GayLine annual report.
- MS-15-11.2020-016, Box 1, Folder 2
- File
- 1991
File contains one copy of the GayLine annual report and one summary of the report.
Yoruba women and social change / Beverly A. Crutchfield
- MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 10
- File
- 1973
File contains a copy of Crutchfield's study and preliminary notes on socioeconomic variables.
- MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 10
- File
- 1971
File contains a letter and research proposal for "Control and prevention of psychiatric disorders in community populations" by Alexander Leighton, and a report by D. Shapiro.
A review : Nova Scotia mental health system and changes required
- MS-13-30, SF Box 65, Folder 12, Item 11
- Item
- [early 1970s]
Part of Alexander John Murchison fonds
Item is an undated review of the current Nova Scotia mental health system, as well as an outline of required changes to the system, compiled by Alexander Murchison in the early 1970s. The item provides a brief outline of present mental health programs and facilities in the province — the Cape Breton Mental Health Centre in Sydney, the Eastern Counties Mental Health Centre in Antigonish, the Pictou County Mental Health Centre in New Glasgow, the Cumberland County Mental Health Centre in Amherst, the Cobequid Mental Health Centre in Truro, the Funday [sic] Mental Health Centre in Wolfville, the Digby-Annapolis Mental Health Centre in Digby, the program at the Yarmouth Regional Hospital, and the South Shore Mental Health Centre in Bridgewater — as well as mental and public hospital services — Nova Scotia Hospital, Abbie J. Lane Memorial Hospital, Halifax County Hospital, and Kings County Hospital — and provides recommendations on how to improve the province-wide program addressing mental health. Item contains a few inked and whited-out corrections.
School phobia : a review / Alexander Murchison : [manuscript]
- MS-13-30, SF Box 66, Folder 1, Item 2
- Item
- 1970
Part of Alexander John Murchison fonds
Item is a paper written by Alexander Murchison in December 1970, outlining the "acute psychiatric emergency" of school phobia, suggesting that it is more complicated than being simply "separation anxiety." He defines the phobia, outlines the clinical features and symptoms, discusses the role of separation in the condition, and addresses potential treatments.
- MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 1
- File
- 1970
File contains documents related to the case study of "The Road," an impoverished area in Stirling County.
Inkeles and Murphy data comparisons
- MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 16
- File
- 1969 - 1972
File contains a computer printout dataset of frequency distribution comparison between Jane Murphy's and Alex Inkeles' data. Also includes copies of several of Inkeles' published articles: "The fate of personal adjustment in the process of modernization," "The OM scale: a comparative socio-psychological measure of individual modernity," "Some social psychological effects and noneffects of literacy in a new nation," "The modernization of man," and "Making men modern: on the causes and consequences of individual change in six developing countries."
- MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 3
- File
- 1967
File consists of a handbook of social and psychiatric principles to be used by social science researchers working on the Stirling County study.
- MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 12
- File
- 1967
File contains materials from a meeting on the Yoruba studies, including charts and datasets demonstrating psychiatrist's agreement analysis and findings and ABCD analysis.
- MS-13-86, Box 18, Folder 24
- File
- 1967
File consists of a report on the 1967 Yoruba meetings. Includes psychiatrists' agreement analysis, findings, case illustrations, datasets, and a copy of the questionnaire.
Guttman scale for mental health and acculturation level analysis
- MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 1
- File
- [1966?]
File contains printouts of computer code, graphs comparing the relationship between mental health and acculturation, and a study by Frederic Ilfeld titled "Acculturation levels and mental health of 120 educated Yoruba women."
- MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 21
- File
- 1966
Two drafts of Himmelstrand's study analyzing the mental health of Nigerian factory workers.
1965 - 1966 re-abstracting Yoruba manual
- MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 13
- File
- 1966
File consists of a re-abstracting manual for the Yoruba study data to update the research goal to compare urban and rural mental health and limit bias in analysis. File also includes respondents' answers to health surveys and a memo regarding evaluation of Yoruba abstracts.
Analysis of cultural change / by Fred Ilfield
- MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 5
- File
- 1966
File contains printouts of computer code, and graphs and datasets analyzing socioeconomic acculturation of Yoruba women. File also includes three copies of Ilfield's study "Acculturation levels and mental health of 120 educated Yoruba women."
Rin - Chinese women cross-cultural comparisons
- MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 22
- File
- 1966
File contains a copy of the study "Psychophysiological reactions of a rural and suburban population in Taiwan" by Hsien Rin, Hung-Ming Chu, and Tsung-Yi Ling. Also contains correspondence between Hsien Rin and Jane Murphy and notes and data tables on modernization rates and number of children among respondents.
Reliability of data on literacy in Yoruba among men
- MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 9
- File
- 1965
File consists of a memo from Jane Murphy to Cornell staff regarding an analysis of the reliability of literacy data among male Yoruba study subjects and its effects on future analysis.
- MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 17
- File
- 1965
File contains a large handbook on psychiatric evaluation as written by Alexander Leighton and Dorothea Leighton for the Stirling County study.
Hollingshead scale for socioeconomic status analysis of urban women and their husbands
- MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 3
- File
- [1965 - 1966?]
File contains printouts of computer code, datasets and statistics on respondents' occupations and economic status, and notes on coding education data. File also includes a copy of "Two factor index of social position" by August B. Hollingshead.
Social and cultural aspects of fertility among the Yoruba women of Nigeria / by Grafton Trout
- MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 6
- File
- 1964 - 1965
File contains a research proposal, progress report/speech, and several drafts of Trout's study on Yoruba fertility. File also includes a memo regarding Trout's summary of reliability for the 1961 Cornell-Aro study and several copies of the summary.
NSP 571 - Canada, Sweden, Nigeria
- MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 9
- File
- [1963?]
Financial report - work sheets
- MS-13-86, Box 26, Folder 3
- File
- 1963 - 1967
File contains expense lists and financial documents and reports for the Social Science Research Council regarding the Role of Women study.
Method memos on sampling, data gathering, evaluations for 1961 - 1963 comparisons
- MS-13-86, Box 16, Folder 1
- File
- 1963
File consists of a 22-page memo from Jane Murphy regarding research methods, sampling, and analysis of data from the 1961 and 1963 Nigerian studies.
(part of) Stirling report #446 - Chapter III : community reactions
- MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 8
- File
- 1962
File contains a manuscript for a chapter in a book about the Stirling County study.
Uses of psychophysiological measures in cross-cultural psychiatric surveys / by Warren B. Miller
- MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 4
- File
- 1962 - 1963
File contains a draft of Warren Miller's study and several pages of related research notes. Also contains a memo regarding comments and proposed edits to the draft, and a letter to Miller from Laurel Hodgden regarding the study "Psychiatric disorder among the Yoruba."
- MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 5
- File
- 1962 - 1963
File contains documents relating to Taintor's study and two drafts of the full study text. Includes mental and physical health surveys and datasets, interview fieldnotes, and statistics and calculations. Also contains a letter from Laurel Hodgden regarding the usability of the data.
Stirling report #446 - Clinic community report / A.L. Longaker
- MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 7
- File
- 1962
File contains a report from the Stirling County community clinic.
Stirling report #448 - The Cornell Programme in Nova Scotia : questions and answers about its work
- MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 12
- File
- 1962
- MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 10
- File
- 1962
File contains a copy of the study by Hughes, Macklin, and Murphy. Also contains compiled responses to the social data questionnaire.
Reliability analysis between psychiatrists
- MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 14
- File
- [1961?]
File contains an appendix (Appendix F) outlining procedures in comparing psychiatric evaluators' thought processes and conclusions surrounding the mental health of respondents of the Cornell-Aro study. File also includes information on analysis coding and a chart outlining mental health symptom statistics.
Stirling report #464 - Chapter v : how sick is sick?
- MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 6
- File
- 1961
File contains a manuscript for a chapter in a book about the Stirling County study.
Progress report for Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project
- MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 5
- File
- 1961
File contains an interim progress report for the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project with reference to the National Institute of Health grant M-4506.
Psychiatric symptom patterns and disorders
- MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 15
- File
- 1961
File contains memoranda on psychiatric statistics and analyses and a guidebook for symptom evaluation information card coding. File also includes notes on psychiatric findings.
- MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 4
- File
- 1961
File consists of a second draft of the handbook by Charles C. Hughes written as part of the Cornell-Aro study. File also contains a page of notes on indicators of disintegration.
- MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 5
- File
- [1961?]
File contains notes on psychiatric symptoms and diseases present in Nigerian respondents, and on the respondents' beliefs regarding illness. Also contains notes between researchers sharing thoughts and findings. File also includes Jane Murphy's field notes from discussions of disease with respondents. File also contains a copy of the study "The psychiatric examination of native African patients" by Edward L. Margetts.
Requests for reports on 1963 study on the role of Yoruba women
- Subseries
- 1961 - 1967
Subseries consists of revised analysis and evaluation materials for the 1961 and 1963 studies. Also includes correspondence on the projects and field notes with great detail on respondents' interviews and evaluations.
Stirling report #444 - Maine-Stirling county workshop report
- MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 11
- File
- 1961
File contains a report from a workshop in Augusta, Maine regarding the sociocultural factors and psychiatric epidemiology of the Stirling County study.
Reliability between psychiatric and social data
- MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 9
- File
- 1961 - 1965
File contains a summary of reliability tests made by comparing psychiatric and social data protocols of the Cornell-Aro study. Also includes a memo regarding Jane Murphy's study on literacy, sociocultural chance, and mental illness in rural Yorubans.
Robert Collis Jr.'s thesis materials
- MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 6
- File
- [196-]
File consists of maps, graphs, and charts taken from Collis Jr.'s thesis outlining physical and mental health correlations.
Common medical diseases in Yoruba villages / by Sylvia von Severus
- MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 7
- File
- 1960
File consists of a report by von Severus on the physical health conditions prevalent in Yoruba village to determine their eligibility in the 1961 Cornell-Aro study.
Superstitions and health in Nigeria / by Rhoda Omosunlola Johnston
- MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 1
- File
- [196-]
File consists of a script or text for an introductory lecture by Rhoda Omosunlola Johnston on the subject of Nigerian superstitions and physical health.
Extra copies of crucial tables (C - A analysis)
- MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 3
- File
- [196-]
File contains notes on and tables of psychiatric rating and impairment statistics. There is much comparison between Yoruba villages, Abeokuta, and Stirling County and analysis of respective physical and mental health symptoms and patterns.
Affiliated studies using the 1961 and 1963 study data
- Subseries
- 1960 - 1973
Subseries consists of affiliated studies by other authors that used the data from the 1961 Cornell-Aro and 1963 role of women studies. Contains some articles written by staff members of the 1961 and 1963 studies.
Education and psychiatric disorders
- Subseries
- 1960 - 1972
Subseries consists of various statistical analyses done of data from the Yoruba studies, particularly in relation to education and male respondents. Memos, reports, publications, dataset printouts, and analysis manuals present.
- MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 5
- File
- 1959
File contains a proposal for a community mental health improvement project following ten years of participation in the Stirling County study.
- MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 3
- Item
- June 30, 1958
Item is Alexander Leighton's eighth annual report on the Stirling County study.
- MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 2
- Item
- June 30, 1957
Item is Alexander Leighton's seventh annual report on the Stirling County study.
- MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 24
- File
- 1956 - 1963
File contains a copy of Hudson's study and a progress report and copy of the survey for Williams' study "Social and cultural factors affecting role-conflict and adjustment among American women: a pilot investigation." Also includes a copy of the Cornell-Aro study social data questionnaire and a computer dataset printout of Yoruba respondents.
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