CRIME-RELATED POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER IN ELDERLY PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS: A CASE SERIES

✍ Scribed by STEVE SIMPSON; MIKE MORLEY; BOB BALDWIN

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 290 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0885-6230
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1166(199610)11:10<879::aid-gps397>3.0.co;2-g

✦ Synopsis

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.