The Association of the Traumatization Severity and Severity of the Psychic Symtoms of the Females Who Lost Their Husbands During the 1992-1995 War in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Abstract

Introduction

Females who lost tzheir husbands during the war sufer from the different psychic problems.

Objectives

to investigate the association of severity of traumatization and level of somatization, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, sensibility, depressiveness, anxiety, hostility, phobic, paranoia, psychotic symptoms of the females who lost husbands during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BH).

Methods

The sample was consisted from 50 females who lost and 50 females who did not lost their husbands in the BH war 1992-1995, of age from 35-60 years. We used The Harvard Trauma Questionnaire and Brief Symptoms Inventory.

Results

The obtained results indicate that the level of traumatization was significantely positively associated with the level of the somatization (Pearson’s 'r”=0,682; P<0,001), obsessive-compulsive symptoms (r=0,759; P<0,001), sensibility (r=0,698; P<0,001), depressiveness (r=0,743; P<0,001), anxiety (r=0,780; P<0,001), hostility (r=0, 765; P<0,001), phobic (r=0,605; P<0,001), paranoia (r=0,678; P<0,001), and psychotic symptoms (r=0,622; P<0,001) of tested females in the postwar BH.

Conclusion

The severity of traumatization of the females who experienced the loss of their husbands during the war 1992.-1995 in Bosnia-Herzegovina significantly positively associated with the level of the somatization, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, sensibility, depressiveness, anxiety, hostility, phobic, paranoia, psychotic symptoms.