Psychiatric consequences of stress after a vehicle accident.
BACKGROUND
Vehicle accidents are a common cause of disease and death among people over 30 years of age. Essentially, reaction to stress due to the vehicle accident does not differ from the reaction to other stress factors. There are still no uniform viewpoints about the kind of sequels and their percentage representation after vehicle accidents.


METHODS
The research was provided as a prospective study, included 150 subjects who had vehicle accident minimum 2 years prior to the examination. A questionnaire adjusted to the needs of the research and a battery of psychological tests was used.


RESULTS
Affective disorders occurred in 35.33% of subjects, 65% of persons suffer from travel anxiety, 9% of the total number of examinees doesn't drive any more, 65% have somatisational dysfunctions of the vegetative nervous system, while the posttraumatic stress disorder is present in 36% of subjects.


CONCLUSIONS
In 87.4% of persons psychiatric consequences last over two years. Long term consequences in 60% of subjects occur as a combination of multiple psychiatric disorders, so the posttraumatic stress disorder and affective disorders never occur one at a time.
Dickov
Aleksandra
A
Institute of Psychiatry, Clinical Centre Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia. dickov@hotmail.com
Martinović-Mitrović
Sladjana
S
Vucković
Nikola
N
Siladji-Mladenović
Djendji
D
Mitrović
Dragan
D
Jovicević
Mirjana
M
Misić-Pavkov
Gordana
G
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