J Korean Neuropsychiatr Assoc.
1997 Sep;36(5):841-849.
Psychiatric Symptoms in Survivors of the Sampoong Accident
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- 1Department of Neuropsychiatry, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea.
Abstract
- In order to evaluate psychiatric symptoms in survivors of the Sampoong accident, we interviewed 624 survivors of the accident. The most common complaint of the subjects was sleep disturbance(54.2%). And then, headache(31.8%), irritability and anger(23.3%), intense distress over reminders(24.2%) followed. Common somatic complaints were headache, chest discomfort, extremity pain, backache, and gastrointestinal discomfort. This study revealed that most of the subjects had various psychiatric symptoms after the Sampoong accident.
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