Citation

Matsuoka Y, Nishi D, Nakajima S, Yonemoto N, Noguchi H, Otomo Y, Kim Y. Psychiatry Clin. Neurosci. 2009; 63(2): 235-237.

Affiliation

Department of Adult Mental Health, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1440-1819.2009.01928.x

PMID

19335394

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to investigate the development of, prediction of, protection against, and the course of psychological distress and well-being in a sample of patients with motor vehicle accident-related injuries, in a cohort study. In a secondary analysis, the question of whether psychiatric morbidity was associated with quality of life in 95 injured patients after motor vehicle accident at 1-month follow up, was investigated. Results indicated that psychiatric morbidity has an adverse effect on quality of life.

Language: en