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Alexithymia in War Veterans with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

E. Becirovic ,
E. Avdibegovic ,
R. Softic ,
M. Mirkovic-Hajdukov  and
A. Becirovic
E. Becirovic
Affiliation:
UKC Tuzla, Klinika za psihijatriju, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
E. Avdibegovic
Affiliation:
UKC Tuzla, Klinika za psihijatriju, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
R. Softic
Affiliation:
UKC Tuzla, Klinika za psihijatriju, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
M. Mirkovic-Hajdukov
Affiliation:
UKC Tuzla, Klinika za psihijatriju, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A. Becirovic
Affiliation:
UKC Tuzla, Poliklinika za laboratorijsku dijagnostiku, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Abstract

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Introduction

Alexithymia consider a cluster of cognitive and affective characteristics that include: inability of recognizing and describing emotions, difficulties in distinguishing feelings and physical sensations during emotional arousal, narrowed capacity for imagination and externally oriented cognitive style. Several studies links alexithymia with increased risk for physical and mental damage. Symptoms of alexithymia are documented in persons who develop PTSD in response to different types of traumatic events.

Objectives

To examine alexithymia in war veterans.

Aims

To determine whether alexithymia is significantly more present in war veterans with PTSD.

Methods

Cross-sectional study of 205 war veterans tested by Harvard Trauma Questionnaire and by Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20).

Results

Out of 205 war veterans 89 (43.4%) of them have alexithymia. Significantly more veterans with PTSD (78 or 75%) than without PTSD (11 or 10.9%) has alexithymia (Chi2 = 88.955, P < 0.001) was found a statistically significant difference between the two groups in the total score of alexithymia (t-test = −10.676, P < 0.001) statistically significant difference was found in all three domains of alexithymia.

Conclusions

Alexithymia is significantly often in war veterans with than without PTSD.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-Poster Viewing: Post-traumatic stress disorder
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S720
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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