[Influence of traumatizing factors during captivity on somatic and psychiatric morbidity in former prisoners of war].
This study tries to evidence the effect of past traumatic experiences of the present somatic and psychiatric morbidity of the former POW. One hundred POWs hospitalized at the Ste-Ode Center for former prisonners of war and political prisonners having spent five years in the German and Austrian camps were submitted to a semi-structured interview. The number of traumatic experiences spontaneously reported has been compared with the present score on the Cornell Index form N2. The results show a relation between both data: a former POW who had undergone a minimum number of traumas significantly appears to be anxious, asthenic, nervous, with a predisposition to depression and psychosomatic disorders.
D000368:Aged; D001530:Belgium; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009017:Morbidity; D011330:Prisons; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D014857:Warfare
Incidence des facteurs traumatisants de la captivité sur la morbidité somatique et psychiatrique de l'ancien prisonnier de guerre