Gt. Brandt et al., PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY IN MEDICAL AND SURGICAL PATIENTS EVACUATED FROMTHE PERSIAN-GULF-WAR, Psychiatric services, 48(1), 1997, pp. 102-104
Acute treatment records of all medical and surgical patients evacuated
to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., from the Pers
ian Gulf theater (N = 161) were examined to better understand the rela
tionship of injury to psychiatric symptoms. A total of 110 (68 percent
) sustained a traumatic injury. They were significantly more likely to
have an axis I disorder or psychiatric symptoms of concern than parti
cipants in the Persian Gulf War who did not sustain traumatic injuries
but who were evacuated for medical conditions. The results indicate t
hat traumatically injured veterans who are not injured and that they s
hould be referred for psychiatric evaluation.