The Factors Influencing on the Severity of Psychiatric Symptoms of the Sampoong Accident Survivors

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  • Lee, Min-Soo (Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Korea University) ;
  • Cha, Ji-Hyun (Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Korea University) ;
  • Kwak, Dong-Il (Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Korea University) ;
  • Lee, Joon-Sang (Medical Law Institute, Korea University)
  • 이민수 (고려대학교 의과대학 신경정신과학교실) ;
  • 차지현 (고려대학교 의과대학 신경정신과학교실) ;
  • 곽동일 (고려대학교 의과대학 신경정신과학교실) ;
  • 이준상 (고려대학교 의과대학 의사법학연구소)
  • Published : 1996.12.15

Abstract

We studied the factors that would affect the severity of psychiatric symptoms of the Sampoong accident survivors. In this study, the analyzed factors are sex, age, marital status, educational level, loss of consciousness, witness of death, death of related person, duration until the rescue, duration of hospitalization, and psychiatric treatment after the accident. Although our study has some limitations, we found some factors that affect the severity of psychiatric symptoms after the severe traumatic accident.

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