@article{ref1,
title="Psychiatry of whiplash neck injury",
journal="British journal of psychiatry",
year="2002",
author="Mayou, Richard and Bryant, Bridget",
volume="180",
number="",
pages="441-448",
abstract="BACKGROUND: The psychiatric outcome of whiplash neck injury is controversial. AIMS: To describe outcomes and predictors as compared with other types of road accident injury. METHOD: Consecutive emergency department attenders (n=1148; whiplash 278) assessed by self-report at baseline, 3 months, 1 year and 3 years. RESULTS: Moderate to severe pain was reported by 27% of whiplash sufferers at 1 year and by 30% at 3 years. Psychiatric consequences were common and persistent. Whiplash victims and those with bony injury were more likely to seek compensation. Accident and early post-accident psychosocial variables predicted the pain at 1 year. Claiming compensation at 3 months predicted the pain at 1 year for those with whiplash or bony injury. CONCLUSIONS: There is no special psychiatry of whiplash neck injury. Psychological variables and consequences are important following whiplash in a similar manner to other types of injury.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0007-1250",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}