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This study was examination by Telepsychiatry and E-consalting (telecommunication technologies with the aim of providing psychiatric services from a distance) of war related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Methods:
Many patients with PTSD have different symptoms. The authors' objective is to analize component of symptoms in PTSD.
The subjects were 50 male psychiatric patients by Telepsychiatry and e-consalting with war-related PTSD by videoconferencing via broadband ADSL and WADSL by 768 kbps. Posttraumatic stress syndrom-PTSS scale and 20-item Zung selfrating scale was used to assess state measures of symptom severity.
Results:
The symptoms of prolonged PTSS (posttraumatic stress syndrome) with duration between six moths and two years had been founded at 38 (76 %) and 12 (24 %) of patients had no PTSS: symptoms of depression had been found at 34 (68 %) patients. The enduring personality exchange after catastrophic expiriense (with duration more than two years), had been found at 7 (14 %) patients; symptoms of depression had been found at 17 (34 %) patients after two years.
Conclusions:
Evolution of PTSD symptoms and continued examination and follow-up by Telepsychiatry service and e-consalting may be important in predicting the eventual development of depressive symptoms and precipitation of F 62.0 enduring personality exchange after catastrophic expiriense in the war related PTSD. Consequently, Telepsychiatry service and e-consalting it is able to serve not only PTSD but also wide range of other patient population.
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