FOLLOW-UP STUDIES OF WORLD WAR II AND KOREAN WAR PRISONERS II. MORBIDITY, DISABILITY AND MALADJUSTMENTS

摘要: US Army veterans taken prisoner (POW's) in World War II and the Korean are compared with controls as to hospital admissions from 1946 1965 (1954-1965 for POW's), symptoms, disability, maladjustments 1966-1967. Sequelae of POW experience both somatic psychiatric, greatest extent severity among Pacific POW's. Among European POW's only psychiatric sequelae apparent. Somatic were most prevalent early years after liberation, but they persist form higher admission rates many specific causes recent period. Nevertheless, persistent (especially psychoneurosis also schizophrenia) more notable pervasive seen not elevated VA disability awards symptoms reported on cornell Medical Index Health Questionnaire. The excess morbidity appears correlate well retrospective accounts weight-loss nutritional deficiency diseases during