Torture survivors often report chronic debilitating physical and psychological distress. Prior research on the relationship between physical and psychological trauma suggests that the 2 are not independent. Injury sustained during torture may increase the likelihood of subsequent distress as either a moderator or mediator. For long-term psychopathology in a sample of Punjabi Sikh survivors of h...

Objetive: to evaluate the use drugs by individuals hospitalized due non-lethal physical trauma. Methods: prospective study carried out on a transversal cohort assessing secondary data and toxicological analyses in hospital of municipality Southern Brazil. Individuals were selected after being trauma likely be caused drug abuse. There cases reported public private basic health care systems regis...

objective: to assess the availability of trauma care services in a district referral hospital of southern india. methods: this was a cross-sectional study being performed during 2013 in a tertiary healthcare centre in southern indian. a detailed assessment of trauma care services was done in a 400 bed speciality hospital which is an apex referral hospital in the public health system using a che...

PURPOSE This prospective study evaluated the profile of patients with dentoalveolar trauma assisted at the emergency room of the Oral and Maxillofacial Trauma and Surgery Service at the Hospital das Clínicas, São Paulo University Medical School (Brazil). METHODS A prospective study by a questionnaire applied during the first attendance of those patients, in a period of eight months. RESULTS...

This study examines the relative contributions of cumulative maternal trauma, substance use, depressive and posttraumatic stress diagnoses on parental abuse potential, punitiveness, and psychological and physical aggression in a sample of 176 urban mothers. Participants were categorized into four groups: substance use (n = 41), depressed (n = 40), comorbid (n = 47), and control (n = 48). Partic...

World Health Organization theme for the year 2002 says, ‘move for health’, which emphasizes on the role of physical activity in the healthy living of an individual. During these physical activities, injuries to the face and trauma to primary and permanent teeth are common. Since a high proportion of dental trauma occurres during physical education classes in school , it would be desirable for p...

BACKGROUND No previous study has investigated the association between early trauma and suicidal behavior in medical students. We evaluated the types of early trauma which are the most strongly associated with a lifetime history of suicidal behavior in medical students. METHOD A total of 6986 medical students completed a self-administered questionnaire (response rates: 49.6% of the entire medi...