Precursors of Depression in World War II Veterans 40 Years after the War
Precursors of Depression in World War II Veterans 40 Years after the War
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战后 40 年后二战退伍军人抑郁症的前兆
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发表时间：
1987
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
K. Goulston
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作者：
O. Dent;C. c;K. Goulston
这项针对日本战俘和其他退伍军人的澳大利亚男性囚犯的研究探讨了二战以来 40 年来战时压力以及其他社会心理和健康变量对抑郁症的影响。我们对 1983 年居住在悉尼的澳大利亚陆军第八师的 170 名幸存成员（战俘）进行了随机抽样，并与战争期间在东南亚作战但没有被监禁的 172 名退伍军人（非战俘）进行了比较。涉及九个预测变量的多元回归分析显示，根据 Zung 量表测量，自我报告的战争期间的神经疾病和战后的抑郁疾病对当前的抑郁症具有明显的独立影响。已婚和受过更好的教育对非战俘有显着的预防抑郁作用，而就业和较高的社会经济地位对战俘有保护作用。从战时的神经疾病到战后的抑郁症再到当今的抑郁症，都显示出明显的联系。
The impact of wartime stress and other psychosocial and health variables on depressive illness in the 40 years since the Second World War is examined in this study of Australian male prisoners of the Japanese and other veterans. A random sample of 170 surviving members of the captured Eighth Division of the Australian Army residing in Sydney in 1983 (POWs) was compared with a similar sample of 172 veterans who fought in Southeast Asia during the war but were not imprisoned (non-POWs). Multiple regression analysis involving nine predictor variables revealed that self-reported nervous illness during the war and depressive illness since the war had pronounced independent effects on current depression as measured by the Zung Scale. Being married and better educated had significant protective effects against depression for the non-POWs while being employed and having higher socioeconomic status were protective for POWs. A clear linkage was shown from wartime nervous illness to postwar depressive illness to present-day depression.