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Sixty years later
— post-traumatic stress symptoms and current psychopathology in former German children of World War II | | Author(s) | Philipp Kuwert, Carsten Spitzer, Anna Träder |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 19, no 5, October 2007 |
| Pages | pp 955-961 |
| Source | http://journals.cambridge.org/jid_IPG |
| Keywords | Stress ; War ; Children ; Life span ; Germany. |
| Annotation | The amount of trauma impact, post-traumatic stress symptoms and current psychopathology distress is assessed in a sample of former German children of World War II. 93 participants were recruited through the local press, and assessed using the modified Post-traumatic Diagnostic Scale (PDS) and the Symptom Checklist (SCL-90-R). Subjects reported a high qualitative and quantitative degree of trauma exposure. 13.8% reported PTSD-related symptoms after the war, and 10.8% reported current symptoms. PTSD symptoms after World War II were significantly correlated with current psychopathological distress. In line with other studies, the data documents a high degree of trauma exposure during war childhood. Compared to other studies on PTSD in war children, there is a persisting high prevalence of war-associated PTSD symptoms in this sample. Despite some methodological limitations, data obtained by the authors underline the urgent need for further studies on the ageing group of those who were children during World War II. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-071114205 A |
| Classmark | QNH: VMC: SBC: BG6: 767 |
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