Sketchy expositions of depressive disorders in ex-servicemen
- Author:
Lan Van Nguyen
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
depression
- MeSH:
Depressive Disorder;
diagnosis
- From:Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Information
2001;(11):35-37
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
Studying clinical feature and some risk factors of depressive disorders and depressive levels by the test Beck in 41 patients from war-veterans with different organic diseases, the authors made the following comments: clinical pictures of depressive disorders in these patients were very variable. Clinical symptoms usually presented with higher frequency in patients with more organic disease such as worries (65.85%), exhaustion after minimal effort (78.05%), diminished appetite (59.54%), insomnia (60.97%), lack or loss of sexual desire (87.8%)... Risk factors such as bad social customs made up 17.07% (alcoholism, superstitions, gambling...), consequences of war (29.27%), widowhood (14.63%)... weren't favorable psychosocial factors for depressive disorders in war-veterans with organic diseases. Mild and moderate depressive levels made up 60.97% and severe depressions were 7.32%.
