title: [Effect of war on alcoholism].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate and analyze the effect of the war upon the representation of the hospitalized alcoholics at the Department of Psychiatry at the Clinical Hospital of Mostar. RESPONDENTS AND METHODS: In this retrospective research was analyzed the representation of alcoholism in all the patients hospitalized in the year 1994 and in all the patients hospitalized in the year 1999, by examining the disease history. All the patients were hospitalized at the Department of Psychiatry of the Clinical Hospital of Mostar. The classical medical procedure and the biomedical diagnostics parametry were used to make a diagnosis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Total number of the hospitalized at the Department of Psychiatry in the war period (year 1994) amounted to 329 patients, out of who 25.5% due to alcoholism. Five years later the number of the patients hospitalized at the Department of Psychiatry amounted to 349, out of whom 28.6% owing to alcoholism, which is an increase in the representation of alcoholics among the total number of treated patients, but not also a statistically significant difference (P > 0.05). The increased number of persons who were treated for alcoholism in the post-war year 1999 can be partly explained by the occurrence of war related psychic disorders, a combination of severe social and material situation and frequent secondary traumatization.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  An increase in the number of patients hospitalized owing to alcoholism in the post-war year 1999 (28.6%) as compared to the war year 1994 (25.5%), is shown.
authors.affiliation: Odjel za psihijatriju, Klinicka bolnica Mostar.
authors.forename: Dragan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Babić
authors.forename: Miro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Klarić
authors.forename: Vedrana
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Hoffmann
authors.forename: Zrinka
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Cavar
authors.forename: Mulija
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dzudza
authors.forename: Slavica
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Corluka
authors.forename: Boris
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Maslov
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D019973:Alcohol-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D017522:Bosnia and Herzegovina / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014857:Warfare