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48 Telepsychiatric services for follow-up war related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and enduring personality exchange (F62.0) after catastrophic expiriense

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 June 2014

Milan Stojakovic,
Bogdan Stojakovic and
Sanja Vukadinovic
Milan Stojakovic
Affiliation:
Department Of Psychiatry & Clinic For Psychiatry, Clinical Center, Banjaluka, 78000 Banjaluka, Bosnia Herzegovina, E-mail: misos@blic.net
Bogdan Stojakovic
Affiliation:
Department Of Psychiatry & Clinic For Psychiatry, Clinical Center, Banjaluka, 78000 Banjaluka, Bosnia Herzegovina, E-mail: misos@blic.net
Sanja Vukadinovic
Affiliation:
Department Of Psychiatry & Clinic For Psychiatry, Clinical Center, Banjaluka, 78000 Banjaluka, Bosnia Herzegovina, E-mail: misos@blic.net
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Abstract

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Introduction/Objectives:

This study was examination by Telepsychiatry and e-consulting of war related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and F62.0 enduring personality exchange after catastrophic expiriense.

Participants, Materials/Methods:

The subjects were 100 male psychiatric patients by Telepsychiatry and e-consulting with war-related PTSD by videoconferencing via broadband ADSL and WADSL by 768kbps. Post-traumatic stress syndrome-PTSS scale and 20-item Zung self rating scale was used to assess state measures of symptom severity.

Results:

The symptoms of prolonged PTSS (posttraumatic stress syndrome) with duration between six moths and 2 years had been founded at 73 (73%) and 27 (27%) of patients had no PTSS. Symptoms of depression had been found at 64 (64%) patients. The enduring personality exchange after catastrophic expiriense (F62.0), had been found at 14 (14%) patients (P & < 0.01); symptoms of depression had been found at 47 (47%) patients after 2 years.

Conclusions:

Telepsychiatry service and e-consulting it is able to serve not only PTSD but also wide range of other patient population. Continued examination and follow-up evolution of PTSD symptoms by Telepsychiatry service may be important in predicting the eventual development of depressive symptoms and precipitation of F62.0 enduring personality exchange after catastrophic expiriense in the war related PTSD.