Monday, September 24, 2007

PTSD in Mosul


This is doctor Salem Al Hakeem, a psychiatrist from Iraq, in his study of PTSD in Mosul city (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), he took a sample of about 396 persons, randomly, and found that PTSD prevalence is 25.88%.... Most of them are not diagnosed...

2 comments:

Mohammed A. said...

what the type of study??? the results are way too high , not that it's unexpected...after all, this is Iraq.

Unknown said...

Hi Mohammed. I think it was cross sectional life time prevalence. Not sure it might be point prevalence. If i check it later will let you know. Glad that you seem interested in this blog. Wellcome.