Series contains materials related to the development of Alexander Leighton's book on the prevention of mental illness. Documents include manuscripts, correspondence, research notes, and copies of past publications.
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.
This fonds consists of material created and collected by Robert Weil during his career as a psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry at Dalhousie University. Types of records include correspondence, original manuscripts and published work, research and notes, photographs, patient files, and studies and collected data on the psychological results of the surviving miners of the Springhill Mine Disasters in 1956 and 1958.
Subseries includes data for and analyses of socioeconomic aspects of Yoruba women's lives (education, migration, social class, health, children, husbands, religion, family, etc.). The 1963 data seems to be part of another study, referred to in several files as "The 1963 study on the role of Yoruba women," that either piggybacked off the Cornell-Aro study or was somehow included as a sub-project.
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.
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.
Subseries contains datasets, computer printouts, notes, and analysis guidelines comparing psychiatric and social statistics from the Nigerian and Stirling County studies.
File contains tables, graphs, and charts comparing Nigerian and Stirling County data. Also contains notes and thoughts on analytics and data significance.
File includes statistics on the socioeconomic statuses of Cornell-Aro study respondents and information for the psychiatrist's random sampling results.
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.
File contains charts comparing datasets and statistics from Yoruba villages and Stirling County. Also includes note on the 1961 to 1963 Nova Scotia re-survey sample and a memo regarding RIDITs for 1952 to 1962.
File contains notes on case classification definitions and criteria and computer dataset printouts of case typology statistics for Yoruba villages and Stirling County.
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.
Subseries consists of datasets, research notes, and statistical analyses comparing psychiatric data from the Cornell-Aro Nigerian study to that from Stirling County and the Inuit communities of St. Lawrence Island in Alaska.
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.
Files contains documents relating to the film "Mental Health Research in Nigeria" that was filmed during the 1961 Cornell-Aro study. Included are memos discussing the film's production and release, notes on filming scenes, a brochure for Cornell's program in social psychiatry, film production and narration notes, comments from researchers, and letters between researchers, librarians, and contacts in the Nigerian government. File also includes a publication called "African film bibliography 1965" by the Committee of Fine Arts and the Humanities of the African Studies Association.
File contains charts and datasets tracking demographic, social, and psychiatric statistics from Yoruba and Stirling Country respondents. Also contains notes on and memos regarding HOS coding for studying the role of women. Includes analysis cards for Stirling and Yoruba social and psychiatric data and master lists for sample coordination.
File contains documents relating to the attemped Indiana IBM 101 simulator project for analyzing psychiatric symptoms and social factors. Includes communications between Jane Murphy, Veronica Shaw, and Grafton Trout of the Indiana University International Development Centre. Also includes IBM simulator dataset printouts and notes and memoranda regarding data migration processes. The project was never used.
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.
File contains notes on sampling and analysis, information on Nigerian contacts, notes on tribal affiliation, and sample coding. Also contains transcriptions of Jane Murphy's interviews with Tol Asuni and T.A. Lambo regarding regional data samples. Also includes memos concerning psychiatric and social data samples, interview correspondence, and data evaluation.
File contains notes, charts, and datasets tracking the occupations and education levels of the husbands of female study respondents. File also includes correspondence between researchers and Aro Hospital regarding education and migration statistics.
File contains research notes on the history of schools and public education in Nigeria. Comparisons are made between British and Nigerian degree systems. File also includes correspondence between researchers and the Nigerian Consulate in New York regarding Nigerian schooling and the place of women therein.
File contains notes on social and physical histories of several villages and criteria for distinguishing traditional from modern and integrated from disintegrated villages. Also contains charts compiling and comparing village data.
File contains notes on and general questions about analysis of the Nigerian data samples. Also includes a draft summary of a discussion meeting with Jane Murphy, David Macklin, Veronica Shaw, and Laurel Hodden.
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."
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.
File contains charts, calculations, datasets, and graphs tracking education and age. File also includes notes on the relationship between education level and mental health.
File contains notes on respondents' answers to the social science data questionnaire. Answers are compiled by question and percentages and coding notes are included.
File consists of pages of calculations determining the differences between male and female respondents and between the Nigerian and Stirling County data samples.
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.
File contains a list of follow-up tasks related to community respondent information. Also contains a bundle of small notecards with similar follow-up questions and notes.