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Post-traumatic Psychiatric Disturbances: Patterns and Predictors of Outcome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

M. S. Keshavan ,
S. M. Channabasavanna  and
G. N. Narayana Reddy
M. S. Keshavan*
Affiliation:
National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bangalore, India
S. M. Channabasavanna
Affiliation:
National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bangalore, India
G. N. Narayana Reddy
Affiliation:
National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bangalore, India
*
∗Correspondence.
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Summary

A prospective follow-up study of 60 randomly selected cases of closed adult civilian head injuries was conducted for three months from the time of head injury to assess the frequency, patterns, and factors related to posttraumatic psychiatric disturbances.

Eighty per cent of the cases had a neuropsychiatric disturbance as assessed at 1½ months. The commonest was post-concussional syndrome (43 per cent). The extent of social dysfunction was directly related to the severity of head injury. However, the total number of symptoms (largely subjective) correlated highly with pre-traumatic neuroticism. The inter-relatedness of organic and personality factors in the post-traumatic syndrome, and their predictive value, are discussed.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 138 , Issue 2 , February 1981 , pp. 157 - 160
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1981 

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