Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Aja University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, Aja University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Psychol Health Med. 2023 Mar;28(3):812-818. doi: 10.1080/13548506.2021.1981408. Epub 2021 Sep 27.
War as an unpleasant and stressful phenomenon could be the cause of psychiatric disorders. This study aims to collect and compare conducted research to estimate the prevalence of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in combatants, veterans, and freed soldiers of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war. This study is a case review study in which articles were found using keywords, such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), veterans, combatants, captive, soldiers and war in domestic and foreign databases, personal archives, libraries of Iran and Tehran Universities of Medical Sciences and the National Library. The cumulative incidence of PTSD was determined to be 27.8% in veterans, combatants, and freed soldiers. The prevalence of PTSD as seen in civilian and some military studies is less than the values determined in this study. Reasons for this discrepancy may be due to longer durations of exposure and greater numbers of in-the-field missions, multiple traumas, and higher rates of combat exposure, as well as differences in sampling and measurement strategies (e.g. the use of questionnaires instead of clinical interviews).
战争是一种不愉快和充满压力的现象，可能是精神障碍的原因。本研究旨在收集和比较已进行的研究，以估计 1980-1988 年两伊战争中参战者、退伍军人和获释士兵创伤后应激障碍（PTSD）的患病率。本研究是一项病例回顾研究，使用 PTSD、退伍军人、参战者、俘虏、士兵和战争等关键词在国内外数据库、个人档案、伊朗图书馆和德黑兰医科大学和国家图书馆。退伍军人、参战者和获释士兵 PTSD 的累积发病率为 27.8%。在平民和一些军事研究中观察到的 PTSD 患病率低于本研究确定的值。这种差异的原因可能是由于暴露时间更长，实地任务次数更多，多次创伤，以及更高的战斗暴露率，以及取样和测量策略的差异（例如，使用问卷而不是临床访谈）。
