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little role in the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity and
associated the differences more to environment. Psycho-
social factors such as unfamiliar culture and beliefs, dif-
ferent climate and environment, challenging interactions
with government institutions and new language.
It is imperative to emphasize that the findings in this
study should be interpreted with caution because of some
limitation. For instance, being hospital based it is diffi-
cult to generalize. Also, sample size would appear to be
small. In spite of these limitations, this study supported
the protection role of ethnic density on psychiatric mor-
bidity among patients with HIV infection suggesting that
environmental manipulation could be of benefit in the
management of the patient. Future study which these au-
thors would be eager to carry out, involving larger sam-
ple size from the community is encouraged .
5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We acknowledge Drs. Gana, G.J., Ango, J.T., and Abdullahi, Z. of the
department community medicine for assisting in the administration of
the questionnaire.
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