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  • Psychiatric disorders and other health dimensions among Holocaust survivors 6 decades later

  • Asaf Sharon, Itzhak Levav, Jenny Brodsky, Annarosa Anat Shemesh, Robert Kohn
  • Journal:
    The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 195 / Issue 4 / October 2009
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2018, pp. 331-335
    Print publication:
    October 2009
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  • Background

    No previous community-based epidemiological study has explored psychiatric disorders among those who survived the Holocaust.

    Aims

    To examine anxiety and depressive disorders, sleep disturbances, other health problems and use of services among individuals exposed and unexposed to the Holocaust.

    Method

    The relevant population samples were part of the Israel World Mental Health Survey. The interview schedule included the Composite International Diagnostic Interview and other health-related items.

    Results

    The Holocaust survivor group had higher lifetime (16.1%; OR = 6.8, 95% CI 1.9–24.2) and 12-month (6.9%; OR = 22.5, 95% CI 2.5–204.8) prevalence rates of anxiety disorders, and more current sleep disturbances (62.4%; OR = 2.5, 95% CI 1.4–4.4) and emotional distress (P<0.001) than their counterparts, but did not have higher rates of depressive disorders or post-traumatic stress disorder.

    Conclusions

    Early severe adversity was associated with psychopathological disorder long after the end of the Second World War, but not in all survivors. Age during the Holocaust did not modify the results.