Screening investigation of clinical and psychological manifestations of post-traumatic stress syndrome in combatants with optic trauma

Adbrakhimov R. Screening investigation of clinical and psychological manifestations of post-traumatic stress syndrome in combatants with optic trauma. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2018;8(3):548-553. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3408721 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/7464 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part B item 1223 (26.01.2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2018; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 20.03.2018. Revised: 10.03.2018. Accepted: 30.03.2018. SCREENING INVESTIGATION OF CLINICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS SYNDROME IN COMBATANTS WITH OPTIC TRAUMA R. Adbrakhimov Kiev Clinical Hospital No. 2 for Railway Transport ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8574-4310 e-mail: rostislav.abdrahimov@gmail.com Abstract The objective: to make screening evaluation of post-traumatic stress syndrome in combatants with optic injuries to further optimize their medical and psychological support. Under the conditions of PIC 100 combatants were examined. 54 of them had optic injury with partial vision loss at the background of post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSS) and 46 persons had symptoms of PTSS. Mental health of all the subjects was examined. For this they used the CAPS - scale and Neurotization and Psychopathization Questionnaire (NPQ). Use of CAPS –scale for screening allows to suspect symptoms of PTSS in the persons under examination. For their understanding and interpretation it is necessary to compare them with the data of clinical - diagnostic examinations. The use NPQ for screening with the aim to identify signs of psychological maladjustment among combatants and those with visual trauma fully satisfies the research. The established levels of neurotization and psychopathisation clearly demonstrate a shift in psychological maladjustment. Further research is advisable to direct to the development of a detailed study of the psychological state of persons with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. Key words: post-traumatic stress syndrome, psychological maladjustment, combat optic injury