Original scientific paper

Posttraumatic stress disorder in veterans with a limb amputation

Nada Blagojević-Damašek
Jelena Barkić
Dunja Degmečić
Vesna Pereković
Ivan P
Mirela Grgić

Abstract

The research has been carried out on a group of war veterans with the amputation of one or both lower limbs. The aim of the research was to establish the manifestation and the characteristics of PTSD caused by a war trauma in veterans with an amputation or amputations. In accordance with DSM-IV classification and the results on CAPS in a group of veterans with amputation, it has been concluded that 55% of amputees meet the diagnostic criteria for PTSD. The traumatic experience in the group is the loss of a leg accompanied by fear. The expressed symptoms are. those of avoidance and withdrawal, as well as the symptom from the group of increased irritability/ excitability. Subjective agitation/perturbation in the group is moderate with the possibility of control and the social functioning which includes partnership, family roles, parental role, contacts with other people and engagement in the community as well as working activities which refer to household activities and additional education according to residual abilities, is damaged.

Keywords

Limb amputation; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Veterans

Hrčak ID:

190664

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/190664

Publication date:

1.12.2002.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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