@article{ref1,
title="The mental health sequelae of traumatic head injury in South Vietnamese ex-political detainees who survived torture",
journal="Comprehensive psychiatry",
year="2014",
author="Mollica, Richard F. and Chernoff, Miriam C. and Megan Berthold, S. and Lavelle, James and Lyoo, In Kyoon and Renshaw, Perry",
volume="55",
number="7",
pages="1626-1638",
abstract="Little is known about the relationship between traumatic head injury (THI) and psychiatric morbidity in torture survivors. We examine the relationship between THI and depression, PTSD, post-concussive syndrome (PCS), disability and poor health status in Vietnamese ex-political detainees who survived incarceration in Vietnamese re-education camps. A community sample of ex-political detainees (n=337) and a non-THI, non-ex-detainee comparison group (n=82) were surveyed. Seventy-eight percent of the ex-political detainees had experienced THI; 90.6% of the ex-political detainees and 3.6% of the comparison group had experienced 7 or more trauma events. Depression and PTSD were greater in ex-detainees than in the comparison group (40.9% vs 23.2% and 13.4% vs 0%). Dose-effect relationships for THI and trauma/torture in the ex-political detainee group were significant. Logistic regression in the pooled sample of ex-detainees and the comparison group confirmed the independent impact of THI from trauma/torture on psychiatric morbidity (OR for PTSD=22.4; 95% CI: 3.0-165.8). These results demonstrate important effects of THI on depression and PTSD in Vietnamese ex-detainees who have survived torture.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0010-440X",
doi="10.1016/j.comppsych.2014.04.014",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2014.04.014"
}