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Holocaust survivors coping with open heart surgery decades later: posttraumatic symptoms and quality of life.

Abstract：

OBJECTIVE:History of prolonged traumatization has been associated with reduced quality of life (QoL) and difficulties in coping with major life-threatening conditions. We assessed the association between the impact of Holocaust experience (posttraumatic symptoms) and QoL of patients before and after an open heart surgery. METHOD:Sixty-three Holocaust survivors were interviewed before open heart surgery (at admission), 52 at follow-up at 1 week, and 58 at follow-up at 6 months. The interview included background data, Impact of Event Scale (IES), Mastery scale, and QoL measured by the Nottingham Health Profile. Medical data were retrieved from the patients' charts. RESULTS:The total IES score indicate a high level of posttraumatic symptoms at all the time points (close to a mean of 18), but there was a clear trend of changes in the avoidance subscale: At admission, the patients manifested lower avoidance compared with the levels after the surgery and at the follow-up. No significant differences in IES were found by Holocaust experiences. Significant improvements in most components of QoL were found at the follow-up. In multivariate analyses at each time point, the findings show that those with higher levels of posttraumatic symptoms are more at risk for problems in pain and mobility domains of QoL at admission, for emotional reaction after the surgery, and at the follow-up, these associations are only at trend level, while lower sense of mastery became significant. CONCLUSIONS:The improvement in QoL despite persistence of the impact of the Holocaust may indicate that past severe prolonged traumatization does not necessarily reduce the survivors' ability to cope with and regain physical and psychosocial functioning after a severe life-threatening medical condition. This may be further generalized to other significant crisis situations in life, such as prolonged periods of stress, suffered by many populations throughout the world.

journal_name

Gen Hosp Psychiatry

journal_title

General hospital psychiatry

authors

Schreiber S,Soskolne V,Kozohovitch H,Deviri E

doi

10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2004.06.005

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2004-11-01 00:00:00

pages

443-52

issue

eissn

0163-8343

issn

1873-7714

pii

S0163-8343(04)00086-6

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Holocaust survivors coping with open heart surgery decades later: posttraumatic symptoms and quality of life.