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CRIME‐RELATED POST‐TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER IN ELDERLY PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS: A CASE SERIES
Author(s) -
SIMPSON STEVE,
MORLEY MIKE,
BALDWIN BOB
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
international journal of geriatric psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.28
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1099-1166
pISSN - 0885-6230
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1166(199610)11:10<879::aid-gps397>3.0.co;2-g
Subject(s) - psychiatry , traumatic stress , psychology , mental health , injury prevention , occupational safety and health , suicide prevention , poison control , clinical psychology , medicine , medical emergency , pathology
Previous research has shown that fear of crime among the elderly is very common, and being a victim is not uncommon. There have been no descriptions of the impact of crimes on the mental health of the victims. In this study, 350 psychiatric patients were screened for post‐traumatic stress disorders (PTSD). One hundred of the patients had been victims, and five of the victims (5%) had PTSD. Their clinical characteristics are described. In this series, most crimes were not complicated by PTSD.