Institute of Psychiatry, Familial and Environmental Factors in Functional Psychosis Study

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0100 KCLCA IOP/FAM
Held at	: King's College London College Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/ ›
Full title	: Institute of Psychiatry, Familial and Environmental Factors in Functional Psychosis Study
Date(s)	: [1987]
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 24 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Division of Psychological Medicine | Institute of Psychiatry

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

In 1987 the Institute of Psychiatry ran the Familial and Environmental Factors in Functional Psychosis Study. The study aimed to establish the significance of familial and early environmental factors in psychotic illness. The study involved interviewing patients and first degree relatives (preferably the mother), examining patients' educational history prior to illness and taking CT (computerised tomography) scans.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to the Familial and Environmental Factors in Functional Psychosis Study, 1987, comprising patient files; data from patient interviews; data sheets detailing the patients' symptoms and treatment; project proposal, blank forms and questionnaires used in the study and in-patient medical notes relating to patients with schizophrenia.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Arranged in two sections as follows: patient files, and data and administrative material.

Conditions governing access:

The collection contains sensitive personal information and medical details, apply to the Director of Archives and Information Management, King's College London, for details on access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

The collection contains sensitive personal information and medical details, apply to the Director of Archives and Information Management, King's College London, for details on reproductions.

Finding aids:

No additional finding aids.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Received from the Institute of Psychiatry, Jan 2006.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Institute of Psychiatry , Maudsley Twin Psychosis studies (ref: IOP/TWIN)
TWINS' EARLY DEVELOPMENT STUDY (TEDS)(ref: IOP/TEDS)

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Jan 2008