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KMID : 0377619710200040321
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1971 Volume.20 No. 4 p.321 ~ p.327
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Socio-Medical Study of the Amputees
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Abstract
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We have made a socio-medical survey of 200 patients who had major amputations of the limbs and were admitted to the Severance Amputee Center to have prosthetic fitting and training during the period Mar. 1968 to May 1970.
Sex incidence showed male 88% and female 12%, and the age group from 21 to 50 occupied 81.5% of all cases.
The prevalent age groups to become amputee were 21 to 30 years of age, 31 to 40 years of age and 11 to 20 years of age in order.
Accidents were the causes of the amputation in 47.5% of cases, and the next were
diseases and industrial injury, and over-all 75% of the series were the victims of trauma.
The cases who had amputation in the lower extremity were 164(82%), and among them A-K amputee were 78 (39%) and B-K amputee were 74 (37%).
Generally most of the amputee were poorly educated, and 92.5% of them were very poor-economically, so needed the governmental relief and charity service for the prosthetic fitting and training expenditures.
In Korea, women amputees seemed to have less chances than men so far as marriage
was concerned. Average duration for the prosthetic training was 4 weeks in A-K prosthesis wearer, 3 weeks in B-K prosthesis wearer and about 10 days in A-E and B-E prosthesis wearer. One hundred and ten cases(55%) admitted that they had become more nervous and violent after to be amputees.
The episodes of suicidal trial were noted from 32 cases.
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