PTSD PREVALENCE IN REFUGEES FROM CROATIA AND ITS POSSIBLE RELATIONSHIP
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PTSD PREVALENCE IN REFUGEES FROM CROATIA AND ITS POSSIBLE RELATIONSHIP WITH BEING HELD IN DETENTION CAMP

Author(s): Dragica Kozarić-Kovačić, Tajana Ljubin-Golub, Mirjana Grubišić-Ilić, Sunčanica Ljubin-Sternak
Subject(s): Military history, Evaluation research, Health and medicine and law, Victimology
Published by: Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar
Keywords: PTSD; Refugees from Croatia; Detention camp;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the study was to explore the prevalence of PTSD in refugees from Croatia and investigate the relationship between PTSD and the number of experienced traumas, especially with regard to being held in detention camp, as well as the relationship between PTSD and demographic variables. A group of refugees, consisting of 34 men and 54 women, mean age 43, were studied. Trauma Questionnaire and Watson's PTSD Interview were applied. The group experienced three traumas, on average; whereas after two years of life in captivity the prevalence of PTSD was 45.45%. It was established that the total of PTSD symptoms grow with the increasing number of traumas and with the refugee's age, but decrease with the person's higher education.

  • Issue Year: 6/1997
  • Issue No: 28+29
  • Page Range: 327-341
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Croatian