Medicinski vjesnik, Vol. 24 No. (1-2), 1992.
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Posttraumatic stress disorder of Croatian soliders at east-slavonian front
Ivan Požgain
Pavo Filaković
Vesna Pereković
Abstract
Croatian defenders in East - Slavonia have been exposed to brutal aggresion of the technically superior enemy for almost one year. In this war, full of severe stress they usually loose their lives öfter cease five singing. The authors tested 200 randomly selected Croatian soldiers, who had spent more than 3 months at the first defence live, by scale of PTSD criteria. The number of the soldiers who ful-fifled a requirement for PTSD and still perform their duties without asking for psychological and psychiatric help in impressive. The number of those who experience this war without mental disturbances is negligible.
Keywords
posttraumatic stres disorder; Croatian soldiers
Hrčak ID:
195320
URI
Publication date:
1.12.1992.
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