社会精神病学与流行性缩阳症:(三)民俗信仰、社会辅导与防治

Social psychiatry and epidemic koro:(3)Folk belief,social education and prevention

在前文以三个问卷调查的同时,也进行了“民俗信仰量表”调查,以了解有关性、缩阳症及超自然信仰的认识。结果显示,三组比较,总的看并无显著性差异,唯缩阳症组对缩阳症及超自然信仰信念较深,表明缩阳症流行与当地社会文化背景有关。文章根据整个调查结果,提出了有关防治的建议。

At the same time of the three questionnaire scales interview among koro subjects andcontrols mentioned in the previous paper,there was a“Folk Belief Scale”survey conducted in order to see theattitude to and perception on sexual issues,koro syndrome and transcendent religion among differentgroups.The findings indicated that no significant difference was observed in general among these three groupsexcept more stronger belief in koro and transcendent religion in koro ones,showing a close relationship be-tween the onset of epidemic koro and individual sociocultural background.In the light of their results,the au-thors make some suggestions for prevention and intervention for epidemic koro.