Exposure to war trauma with its consequences such as post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and disability due to combat injuries poses a significant problem for modern Croatian society. However, this is also a public health problem requiring continuous study of effective treatment strategies to achieve an increase in quality of life of most war-affected groups. Aim of this study was to examine ...

extractthis study have been done in the american university of beirut medical center for recognizing the skills of nurses in counseling for facilitating mental and physical rehabilitation of war disabled. this center was admitted veterans from ten years ago. this study showed important role of nurses in rehabilitation persons who were disabled from war conflict, terrible events related to war, ...

BACKGROUND The aim was to determine the prevalence of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia in UK military personnel after the Gulf War 1990-1991. METHOD A two-phase cohort study was used. Three randomly selected subsamples identified from a population-based cross-sectional postal survey of over 10,000 current and ex-service UK military personnel (Gulf veterans were...

Recent studies have shown that greater social support after combat stress is associated with better psychological posttraumatic outcomes. By comparison of a group of veterans (n = 71) who sought psychiatric help and were diagnosed with PTSD (clinical group) and a group of veterans (n = 43) without PTSD (control group) we examined various components of structural and functional social support in...

BACKGROUND Despite more than a decade of extensive, international efforts to characterize and understand the increased symptom and illness-reporting among veterans of the 1991 Gulf War, concern over possible long-term health effects related to this deployment continue. The purpose of this study was to describe the long-term hospitalization experience of the subset of U.S. Gulf War veterans stil...

PURPOSE To determine, with arterial spin labeling (ASL) perfusion magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and physostigmine challenge, if abnormal hippocampal blood flow in ill Gulf War veterans persists 11 years after initial testing with single photon emission computed tomography and nearly 20 years after the 1991 Gulf War. MATERIALS AND METHODS The local institutional review board approved this HI...

BACKGROUND Along with primary traumatization, wives of PTSD-diagnosed war veterans often become victims of the altered and dysfunctional state of their partners, which adds to the severity of symptoms of primary traumatization and furthers the development of other mental disorders. The aim of this study was to compare the effects of primary and secondary traumatization in wives of PTSD-diagnose...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate fatigue in Australian Gulf War veterans and a military comparison group according to the 1994 chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) definition and investigate the relation with exposures. METHODS Comprehensive medical, psychological and reported exposure assessments of 1,456 veterans and 1,588 comparison group in a cross-sectional study. RESULTS More...

Understanding how the Vietnam Veteran generation is faring today in terms of behavioral, physical and social health is a critical undertaking for several reasons. First, Vietnam Veterans constitute the largest living cohort of United States (US) Veterans and are the modal users of US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) services. There are also international cohorts of Vietnam Veterans, as Austr...