Symptoms of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Falklands Veterans Five Years After the Conflict
- 1 July 1991
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 159 (1) , 135-141
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.159.1.135
Abstract
A group of 64 Falklands war veterans who were still serving in the British Army were studied and compared with a group of matched controls. Half the veterans reported some symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, and 22% were rated as having the complete PTSD syndrome. Presence of the symptoms was associated with intensity of combat experience and the retrospective report of emotional difficulties in the initial period on return from the war.Keywords
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