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Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project in the Western Region, Nigeria (1961) and the Study on the Role of Women (1963)

Series
1956 - 2002

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Series is comprised of materials related to the 1961 Cornell-Aro Research Project in the Western Region and the 1963 Study on the Role of Women. In the Cornell-Aro study, modeled on the Stirling County Study, Leighton’s team analyze the mental health trends of Nigerians living in both major cities and small rural villages via interviews, surveys, and observations. The Role of Women study may possibly be considered a ‘sub-study’ of the Cornell-Aro study, as it uses much of the same research material supplemented by new data. Materials present include correspondence, memoranda, datasets, research notes, fieldnotes reports, speeches, photographs, forms, applications, surveys and questionnaires, medical documents, affiliated studies, and comparative analyses.

Research grant application for Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 2
File
1959

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a research grant application submitted to the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to request funding for the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project in Nigeria.

Outline of memos on Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 3
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains index of memos published on the Cornell-Aro study, listed by topic.

The pulse, vol. XXIII, no. 4

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 6
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains an 8-page stapled publication of the New York Hosptial Cornell Medical Centre's bimonthly newsletter. Features an article about Alexander Leighton's Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project.

Notes on data sampling considerations in Nigeria

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 11
File
1959 - 1960

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains guidelines and suggestions for selecting diverse and unbiased data samples and determining the value of data collected.

Practice social data questionnaire for Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 16
File
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains one copy of the final fourth draft of the social data questionnaire for community respondents. Questionnaire is in both English and Yoruba and has been completed by an individual subject.

Drafts of social data and psychiatric questionnaires for Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 17
File
1957 - 1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains early drafts of the community respondent social data and psychiatric questionnaires and a survery from Aro Hospital concerning displaced and detribalised people. Also contains a memo justifying the questions used and an appendix containing a blank copy of the final draft of the questionnaire.

Final seventh draft of psychiatric questionnaire for Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project

MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 2
File
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains one blank copy of the final seventh draft of the psychiatric questionnaire for community respondents.

Program from the First Pan-African Psychiatric Conference

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 1
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a program from the 1961 First Pan-African Psychiatric Conference, where the Cornell-Aro study was featured.

Algada village data

MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 17
File
1960 - 1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Agada. File includes three hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village traditional.

Onibuku village data

MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 19
File
1960 - 1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Ilewo. Researchers considered the village traditional.

Oluwo village data

MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 20
File
1960 - 1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Ilewo. File includes one hand-drawn map of the village. Researchers considered the village traditional.

Ashipa village data

MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 22
File
1960 - 1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Ashipa. File includes three hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village modern.

Shodeke village data

MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 24
File
1960 - 1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Shodeke. File includes two hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village modern.

Opeji village data

MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 26
File
1960 - 1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains social and historical research notes, field notes, and population medical survey results for the village of Opeji. File includes four hand-drawn maps of the village.

Abeokuta VI data (Erunbe/square 43)

MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 32
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a list of community respondents from Abeokuta map square 43.

Abeokuta VIII data (square 17)

MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 34
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a list of community respondents from Abeokuta map square 17.

Responses to social science questionnaire by male Abeokuta respondents

MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 36
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains responses to the social science questionnaire. Responses are all from male respondents in Abeokuta.

Olukanku village data

MS-13-86, Box 3, Folder 11
File
1960

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Olukanku.

Education and migration analysis sheets 46 - 60

MS-13-86, Box 7, Folder 5
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of filled education and migration data analysis sheets numbered 46 to 60.

Education and migration analysis sheets 61 - 75

MS-13-86, Box 7, Folder 6
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of filled education and migration data analysis sheets numbered 61 to 75.

Education and migration analysis sheets 76 - 90

MS-13-86, Box 7, Folder 7
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of filled education and migration data analysis sheets numbered 76 to 90.

Symptom and situation coding 660 - 669

MS-13-86, Box 7, Folder 11
File
1964

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of symptom and situation evaluation forms for respondents with ID numbers 660 to 669.

Symptom and situation coding 760 - 769

MS-13-86, Box 8, Folder 7
File
1964

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of symptom and situation evaluation forms for respondents with ID numbers 760 to 769.

Guttman scale for mental health and acculturation level analysis

MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 1
File
[1966?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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."

Compiled data for urban female Yoruba respondents

MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 4
File
[1966?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of several pages of data tables and statistics for female Yoruba respondents' socioeconomic factors, including age group, mental health, children, education, tribal difference, and social class.

Notes and marginals on social science questionnaire data

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 7
File
1962

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes on respondents' answers to the social science data questionnaire. Answers are compiled by question and percentages and coding notes are included.

Demographic data on hospital patients

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 12
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of notes on the socioeconomic and demographic data of hospital patients.

Reliability analysis between psychiatrists

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 14
File
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

Macklin's 1961 analysis of traditional - modern and integrated - disintegrated villages

MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 14
File
1961 - 1962

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of David Macklin's notes on individual and village acculturation and integration controlled on sex.

Robert Collis Jr.'s thesis materials

MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 6
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of maps, graphs, and charts taken from Collis Jr.'s thesis outlining physical and mental health correlations.

Some aspects of technological change in relation to socio-cultural organization and personality patterning / by Albert Erha Imohiosen

MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 8
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a research proposal for the project along with filled social data questionnaires and semantic differentials questionnaires. Also contains 8 photographs of Nigerian individuals.

Alexander Leighton's 1968 re-evaluations (n=25) and 54 PJ analysis card and codebook

MS-13-86, Box 17, Folder 6
File
[1968?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes on re-evaluation of data from the 1961 and 1963 Nigerian studies, Also includes computer dataset printouts.

Cards 10, 11, 12, 13 printouts

MS-13-86, Box 17, Folder 7
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds