The psychological effects of being a prisoner of war: forty years after release
- 1 May 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 143 (5), 618-621
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.143.5.618
Abstract
Forty years after the end of World War II, the authors compared a random sample of former Japanese-held Australian prisoners of war (POWs) with a group of non-POW combatants of the same era. The POWs were significantly more depressed than were the control subjects, but the two groups did not differ in prevalence of anxiety symptoms or alcohol problems. Apart from a higher rate of postwar duodenal ulcer in the POWs, the two groups had similar degrees of medical morbidity.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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