{"id":802,"date":"2010-06-20T03:50:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T08:50:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-01-22T13:24:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T18:24:18","slug":"health-related-quality-of-life-and-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-in-political-prisoners-of-the-former-gdr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/topics\/human-rights\/health-related-quality-of-life-and-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-in-political-prisoners-of-the-former-gdr\/","title":{"rendered":"Health-Related Quality of Life and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Political Prisoners of the Former GDR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wei\u00dfflog G, Klinitzke G, Hinz A.<br \/>Universit\u00e4t Leipzig, Department f\u00fcr Psychische Gesundheit, Selbstst\u00e4ndige Abteilung f\u00fcr Medizinische Psychologie und Medizinische Soziologie, Leipzig.<br \/><em>Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol<\/em>. 2010 Jun 16.<\/p>\n<p>PURPOSE: Political persecution was and is a reality in our world. The study investigated effects of political imprisonment in the former German Democratic Republic on the current health-related quality of life and on the existence of a post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). METHODS: A sample of 157 former political prisoners was surveyed with a questionnaire containing the EORTC QLQ-C30 and the IES-R.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nRESULTS: Former political prisoners of the GDR reported a lower quality of life than the general population. There is no consistent impact of imprisonment-related variables (e. g. duration of imprisonment) on health-related quality of life. At least, based on questionnaire data it can be estimated that 50% of the people in the sample suffer from a PTSD. CONCLUSION: The results provide further evidence that former political prisoners suffer from the traumatic experience of political persecution also in a long term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wei\u00dfflog G, Klinitzke G, Hinz A.Universit\u00e4t Leipzig, Department f\u00fcr Psychische Gesundheit, Selbstst\u00e4ndige Abteilung f\u00fcr Medizinische Psychologie und Medizinische Soziologie, Leipzig.Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol. 2010 Jun 16. PURPOSE: Political persecution was and is a reality in our world. The study investigated effects of political imprisonment in the former German Democratic Republic on the current health-related quality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3249,"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/3249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}