During the recent Gulf war 63 patients with penetrating missile injuries (including 29 Iraqi prisoners of war) underwent operation in a British Army Field Hospital. Their injuries and initial operative management are reported. Fifty-one casualties (81 per cent) suffered an average of nine wounds (range 1-45) due to fragmentation weapons, and 12 casualties sustained bullet wounds. All wounds wer...

kharijite as one of the groups in the first and second centuries, had a respectively certain attitude toward women. they have offered quite different views of woman and her participation in social and political issues including, marriage, treatment toward female prisoners, women in battles and women caliphate, which took influence of looking at surface and appearance of quran and ideas of peopl...

War captivity is a highly traumatic experience which sometimes has deleterious effects on both ex-POWs and their wives. This study examined the relationships between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and differentiation among male ex-prisoners of war (ex-POWs; n = 103), their wives (n = 82), and comparable controls. Results show that ex-POWs and their wives endorsed more PTSD sympto...

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...

The relevance of this article is studying the problem “Man at war” includes examining a fate prisoners war. Detention conditions Frenchmen in England during Napoleonic wars remain subject discussions foreign historiography. Besides this, it has also never been studied earlier national In they are considered by means regression analysis captivity duration and mortality. Their dependence from suc...

Out of 602 consecutive people who had been prisoners of war in the Far East and were screened for tropical diseases, 88 (15%) were found to have Strongyloides _. stercoralis infection a mean period of 30 years after their return from the tropics. The classical strongyloid creeping eruption was the most common symptom (84%), while gastrointestinal disturbances were rare (5%). Thiabendazole was h...

Prisoners are pressured from inside or outside the correctional facility, triggering psychological problems such as stress, anxiety, and depression. Meanwhile, hope is a positive psychology that helps inmates overcome in facilities. This study further aims to determine female prisoners’ The scoping review approach was used, starting with article search through, EBSCO (CINAHL Academic Search), P...