File contains notes and manuscripts written by Alexander Murchison and Norris Turner between 1972–1975 reviewing child guidance clinics and group homes in Nova Scotia. File also contains the June 1973 issue of the Nova Scotia Association of Social Workers Newsletter, with articles by Norris Turner , Patricia Hardy, Ernie Rafuse, F.M. Fraser, Martin M. Dolan, Linda Isitt, and Barrie R. MacFarlane.
File contains documents relating to Alexander Leighton's 1959 trip to Nigeria. Includes a photograph, several bundles of research notes, schedules, graphic materials, and patient medical notes. Includes an article from the New York Times on the Nigerian election, and no. 10 of the Western Nigerian Illustrated quarterly publication featuring an article about psychiatric treatment at the Aro Hospital. Also includes an envelope labelled 'thought disorder pills' containing five spherical pills.
File contains notes and lists of Cornell-Aro study respondents' occupations. Also includes memoranda and notes on coding categories for occupational data and relevant ethnographic background information.
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 memoranda on psychiatric statistics and analyses and a guidebook for symptom evaluation information card coding. File also includes notes on psychiatric findings.
File consists of notes on psychiatric conditions and symptoms found in Cornell-Aro study respondents. Data tables and analytical explanations accompany datasets and evaluations.
File contains notes on data processing and coding, medical findings, and psychiatric social data. Also includes correspondence between Dorothea Leighton and Alice Longaker regarding coding process and classification procedures.
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.
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 includes statistics on the socioeconomic statuses of Cornell-Aro study respondents and information for the psychiatrist's random sampling results.
File contains notes on village data, socioeconomic information, and psychiatric symptom statistics. File also includes a letter to Alex (Leighton?) from Ray (?) on the subject of sampling techniques and a further study on the role of physical depletions in the etiology of Yoruba psychiatric disturbances.
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 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.
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 notes on respondents who showed resistance during their interviews. Resisters' responses, actions, and symptoms are listed. File also includes letters between Alexander Leighton and Veronica Shaw discussing how to process resisters' interviews and comparing psychiatrists' evaluations of their responses.
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 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.
File contains notes on medical data relevant to hemoglobin. Includes lists of Sahli percentages and charts comparing averages. Also includes a memo regarding summary data from random village hemoglobin samples.
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 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 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 a research proposal for the project along with filled social data questionnaires and semantic differentials questionnaires. Also contains 8 photographs of Nigerian individuals.
File contains tables, graphs, and charts comparing Nigerian and Stirling County data. Also contains notes and thoughts on analytics and data significance.
File contains computer printout datasets, research notes, and statistical charts comparing information for male and female respondents in integrated and disintegrated communities.
File contains notes on RIDIT values and typology analysis for comparing Yoruba and Stirling data. Also contains computer printout datasets and statistical charts.
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 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.