Symptom and comorbidity patterns in World War II and Vietnam veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder
| Autor: | Rebecca D. Smith, Harold Kudler, William B. Saunders, Jonathan R. T. Davidson |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 1990 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Aging Warfare Time Factors Substance-Related Disorders lcsh:RC435-571 Hostility Comorbidity Dissociative Disorders behavioral disciplines and activities Stress Disorders Post-Traumatic Psychoticism lcsh:Psychiatry mental disorders medicine Derealization Humans Interpersonal Relations Psychiatry Depression (differential diagnoses) Aged Veterans Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Mood Disorders Panic disorder Panic Middle Aged medicine.disease Anxiety Disorders humanities Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Vietnam medicine.symptom Age of onset Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Comprehensive Psychiatry, Vol 31, Iss 2, Pp 162-170 (1990) |
| Popis: | Forty-four veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from World War II and Vietnam were compared. The groups were comparable on many socioeconomic and combat measures and age at onset of PTSD. Vietnam veterans exhibited more severe PTSD symptoms, higher Hamilton depression scores, and higher scores on the hostility, psychoticism, and "additional symptom" Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90) scales. They also had more survivor guilt, impairment of work and interests, avoidance of reminders of trauma, detachment/estrangement from others, startle response, derealization, and suicidal tendencies. Differences were noted between the groups as to the nature of upsetting experiences. Vietnam veterans had a greater lifetime frequency of panic disorder and an earlier age of onset for alcoholism. In other respects, the two groups were diagnostically similar, with PTSD being related to the sequential emergence of psychiatric diagnoses in similar manner for World War II and Vietnam patients. |
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