BACKGROUND
This article examines the long-term impact of wartime captivity.
METHOD
One hundred sixty-four prisoners of war (POWs) and 189 matched combatants of the 1973 Yom Kippur War filled out a series of questionnaires that assessed posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), general psychiatric symptomatology, and social functioning according to DSM-III-R criteria.
RESULTS
Almost 2 decades af...