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Crime-related post-traumatic stress disorder in elderly psychiatric patients
— a case series | | Author(s) | Steve Simpson, Mike Morley, Bob Baldwin |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 11, no 10, October 1996 |
| Pages | pp 879-882 |
| Keywords | Anxiety ; Stress ; Depression ; Crime ; Patients ; Screening ; Case studies. |
| Annotation | Previous research has shown that fear of crime among older people is very common, and being a victim is not uncommon. There have been no descriptions of the impact of crimes on victims' mental health. In this study, 350 psychiatric patients were screened for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). 100 of the patients had been victims, and five of the victims (5%) had PTSD. Their clinical characteristics are described. In this series, most crimes were not complicated by PTSD. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970421008 A |
| Classmark | ENP: QNH: ENR: TWA: LF: 3V: 69P |
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