Study of psychiatric consequences of closed head injury at the Kenyatta National Hospital

dc.contributor.author	Sebit, MB
dc.contributor.author	Siziya, S
dc.contributor.author	Ndetei David M.
dc.contributor.author	Sande, GM
dc.date.accessioned	2013-04-29T09:02:10Z
dc.date.available	2013-04-29T09:02:10Z
dc.date.issued	1998-06
dc.identifier.citation	East Afr Med J. 1998 Jun;75(6):332-5	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9803614
dc.identifier.uri	http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/17539
dc.description.abstract	This was a study to compare the psychiatric consequences of closed head injury (CHI) in 37 patients with 39 demographically similar patients with fractured lower limb injury (FLLI), aged 16-55 years. The outcome measures were the Clinical Interview Schedule-Revised, the Bender Gestalt Test and the WHO AUDIT Core for alcohol abuse. The final diagnoses were made according to DSM-III-R diagnostic criteria. The findings indicated that CHI patients suffered more psychiatric consequences than FLLI controls (OR = 4.07; 95% CI = 1.30:13.14; p = 0.013). Depression and anxiety disorders were the most common problems encountered in these subjects.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.title	Study of psychiatric consequences of closed head injury at the Kenyatta National Hospital	en
dc.type	Article	en
local.publisher	Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya;	en
local.publisher	Department of Psychiatry, University of Zimbabwe	en