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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.

1959 trip to Nigeria

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 8
File
1959

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

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.

Common medical diseases in Yoruba villages / by Sylvia von Severus

MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 7
File
1960

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

Speech by Alexander Leighton upon arrival in Nigeria

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 7
File
[1960?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains an English-Yoruba script for a speech delivered by Alexander Leighton upon his arrival in Nigeria.

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.

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.

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.

Memos on RIDIT analysis of 1961 data

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 16
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of memos discussing data analysis and RIDIT values for the Nigerian sample.

Nigerian study staff

MS-13-86, Box 102, Folder 13
File
1960 - 1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photographs of staff members of the Nigerian study. Also includes photos from the Pan-African Psychiatric Conference and a group photo, possibly of the African Students Association of Cornell University.

Memos on the organization and filing of data for the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 4
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of two memos containing an index of Nigerian research materials and suggestions for their organization and storage.

Progress report for Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 5
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

Davies and Johnson mop-up operations and results

MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 6
File
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

List of alternate spellings of respondents' names

MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 8
File
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a list of community respondents alongside alternate spellings of their names.

Notes on considering villages to be integrated or disintegrated and modern or traditional

MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 11
File
[between 1959-1961]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains information on 14 villages to aid researchers in determining whether they should be considered integrated or disintegrated and modern or traditional. Information is based on population, education, religion, industry, and family structure.

Social science field data

Subseries
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Subseries consists of collected respondents' answers to the social science data questionnaire. Answers are organized by sex of the respondents.

Occupation data for rural Yoruba sample

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 11
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

Psychiatric symptom patterns and disorders

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 15
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains memoranda on psychiatric statistics and analyses and a guidebook for symptom evaluation information card coding. File also includes notes on psychiatric findings.

Miscellaneous analyses regarding psychiatric symptoms

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 17
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of notes on psychiatric conditions and symptoms found in Cornell-Aro study respondents. Data tables and analytical explanations accompany datasets and evaluations.

Analysis of medical data

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 8
File
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of medical data code for the psychiatric questionnaire.

Coding categories for fieldnotes

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 1
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a list of coding categories for data in the 1961 Cornell-Aro study.

Notes on coding

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 2
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

RIDIT calculations for 1961 and 1963 Yoruba studies

MS-13-86, Box 16, Folder 7
File
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of notes on data calculations and statistics from the 1961 and 1963 Nigerian studies.

Dr. Lambo's visit and the Pan-African Psychiatric conference

MS-13-86, Box 102, Folder 12
File
1960 - 1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photographs of a group meeting with Dr. Lambo, and of various speakers at the Pan-African Psychiatric Conference.

Field research schedules

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

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of monthly calendars used to schedule aspects of fieldwork for the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project.

Personnel files for the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 14
File
[between 1959 and 1961]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of contact and background information forms for Nigerian project personnel.

Final fourth draft of social data questionnaire for Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project

MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 1
File
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains one blank copy of the final fourth draft of the social data questionnaire for community respondents. Questionnaire is in both English and Yoruba.

Miscellaneous data sampling information

MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 4
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains respondent eligibility criteria and data sampling processes and statistics for villages.

Data sampling in Abeokuta

MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 5
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File is comprised of documents related to data sampling in the city of Abeokuta. Contains lists of names, notes on divisions of neighbourhoods, and information and statistics relating to city areas and squares. Also contains a large folded map of Abeokuta.

Information on population of Yoruba villages

MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 10
File
[between 1959 and 1961]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of what appears to be an excerpt from a Yoruba rural study estimating the number of people over 20 years of age in Yoruba villages.

Considerations and proposals regarding indicators of sociocultural disintegration in the Egba setting / by Charles C. Hughes

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 4
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

David Macklin's notes on social science questionnaire data analysis

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 5
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of notes on respondents' answers to the social data questionnaire, including statistics and thoughts on card organization and indices.

List of individuals sampled and not interviewed

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 8
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains memoranda regarding the numbers of sampled and interviewed respondents for the Cornell-Aro study. Totals are listed and respondents are organized by village.

Native conceptions of disease

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 5
File
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

Analysis of hemoglobin data

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 7
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

RIDIT tables of marital status and ABCD

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 14
File
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of three pages of data tables of marital status statistics.

1961 RIDIT values

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 15
File
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of RIDIT value tables for urban and rural sample data.

Delivery of a baby to Moteleola at the house of a native obstetrician, Mr. Sadiku, the night of April 12th (1961)

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

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a 24-page account of Jane Murphy observing the birth of a Yoruba baby under the care of a native healer in Abeokuta.

Documents from Charles C. Hughes to aid in setting up 1961 Nigerian study

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 9
File
1959 - 1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains memos from Charles C. Hughes to Alexander Leighton, Jane Murphy, and other members of the Cornell Program in Social Psychiatry concerning past research projects and studies. Also contains copies of outgoing letters from Charles C. Hughes to Mr. Okunbeyi of the Nigerian government and Dr. Lambo of Aro Hospital discussing the possibility of a research project in Nigeria.

Documents from the 1960 Nigerian research planning workshop

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 10
File
1959 - 1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains memos, letters, and conference discussion notes for a task force meeting for the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project. Also includes a sociocultural considerations handbook by Charles C. Hughes.

Information for the selection of villages to study in the Egba area

MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 3
File
1960 - 1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes and information on villages in the Egba region of Nigeria. Also includes memos from Charles C. Hughes containing travel observations and village statistics.

Social science respondents master lists

MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 7
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains lists of community respondents organized according to village or city square.

Psychiatric and medical field data

Subseries
1960 - 1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Subseries consists of medical documents, village health statistics, cross-check interviews, and hospital patient records.

Mental health of native healers in 1961 sample

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 6
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a page of notes on mental health statistics for native healers of the study villages in Nigeria.

Demographic data on Abeokuta residents

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

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of notes on the socioeconomic and demographic data of Abeokuta residents.

Effect of culture and cultural patterns

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 1
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

Respondents' resistance to interviews

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 2
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

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