Psychiatric heredity and posttraumatic stress disorder: survey study of war veterans (original) (raw)

Croatian medical journal, 2007

Abstract

To explore the prevalence of psychiatric heredity (family history of psychiatric illness, alcohol dependence disorder, and suicidality) and its association with the diagnosis of stress-related disorders in Croatian war veterans established during psychiatric examination. The study included 415 war veterans who were psychiatrically assessed and diagnosed by the same psychiatrist during an expert examination conducted for the purposes of compensation seeking. Data were collected by a structured diagnostic procedure. There was no significant correlation between psychiatric heredity of psychiatric illness, alcohol dependence, or suicidality and diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or PTSD with psychiatric comorbidity. Diagnoses of psychosis or psychosis with comorbidity significantly correlated with psychiatric heredity (Phi=0.111; P=0.023). There was a statistically significant correlation between maternal psychiatric illness and the patients' diagnoses of partial PTSD...

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