A prospective descriptive study on prevalence of catatonia and correlates in an acute mental health unit in Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa

• Zukiswa Zingela ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Zukiswa.Zingela@mandela.ac.za

  Affiliation Nelson Mandela University, Gqeberha, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3425-1145

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• Louise Stroud ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Louise Stroud, Johan Cronje

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Nelson Mandela University, Gqeberha, South Africa

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• Johan Cronje ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Louise Stroud, Johan Cronje

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nelson Mandela University, Gqeberha, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0662-7384

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• Max Fink ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision

  ¶‡ MF and SVW also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Stony Brook University, New York, NY, United States of America

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• Stephan Van Wyk

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MF and SVW also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavioural Sciences, Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha, South Africa, Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital, Mthatha, South Africa

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