| Author/Editor | Kostnapfel, J | |
| Title | Duševne motnje borcev - starostnikov; četrta študija - tretja katamneza | |
| Translated title | Psychic disorders of the aged ex-fighters; fourth research study - third katamnesis | |
| Type | članek | |
| Source | Zdrav Vars | |
| Vol. and No. | Letnik 31, št. 10,11,12 | |
| Publication year | 1992 | |
| Volume | str. 267-76 | |
| Language | slo | |
| Abstract | The present work represents the fourth research study roncerning psyrhiatric patients - ex-fighters and the third aatamnesis comprising the period from 1983 -1988. In 35 years (1954 - I988) there were 94:354 treated patients in the Ljubljana psychiatric out-patient clinic. According to the anamnestic data among them there were 2.ll8 ex-fighters, 299 of them women (14 per cent ), which represents 2,2 per cent of all the registered patients. 1059 ex-fighters were treated for neurosis, 581 were visiting out-patient clinic for alcoholism (66 alcoholic psychoses) and 478 for other psychiatric disturbances, mostly organic and functional. In the whole research study lasting 17 years and 8 months, in the observed group 60 patients - ex-fighters and in the control group patients non-fighters (who had not taken part in the Partisan struggle) were followed up. Death is in ex-fighters statistically significantly more frequent than in control patients. The average age of the deceased ex-fighters ex-fighters is 2,2 years lower than of the deceased non-fighters. During the period of the third catamnesis among 31 surviving ex-fighters there were 16 neurotic patients and 7 alcoholic. Further 5 ex-fighters were successfully cured of alcoholism. In the control group among the remaining 41 patients there were 27 neurotic patients, 7 alcoholics and 2 more patients cured of alcoholism. Among all the surviving patients there were 5,5 psychological categories, the patients of control group indicate more frequently the feeling of life being a failure than the patients in observed group. Ex-fighters have on the contrary a more expressed feeling of guilt and a more frequently expressed fear of aging. The number of somatic diseases in both groups confirms the expected polymorbidity of the aged. The four most frequent categories of diseases are teh same in both groups. Almost in half of the patients from both groups the aging processes are more expressed than it would be expected.(trunc.) | |
| Descriptors | VETERANS MENTAL DISORDERS AGING HEALTH STATUS AGED |