Authorst ried retrospective analysis to find out general characteristics of the patients undergoing disability evaluation at the department of psychiatry Chungnam National University Hospital from1986 to 1990.
The subjects, who were suffered from psychiatric complications due to head trauma by traffic accident, were 66 patients and they were classified depending on the demographic status, situations of traffic accident, evalaution periods, whether or not perform operation, and rates of evaluated disability and diagnosis.
The results were summarized as follows.
1. General background of the subjects were as follows.
1) The frequency order of request were court(59％) and insurance company(19.7％).
2) The place of accident was more common in large city, common accident vehicle were bus, truck, and cabs.
3) The season of accident were more common in Spring and Autumn.
2. Male(71.2％) was more common than in female and more common in the age group of 5-19 years old(37.9％). The most frequent job of the patients was labour, and the education level was more common in the graduates of elementary school(47.9％).
3. The interval between accident and evaluation was most frequent in 12-23 months(47.5％), and duration of evaluation was mostly 14 to 21 days. Performed brain operation was 31.8％ and non-operated patients was 50.0％. The rates of disability according to the McBride’s disability evaluation were mostly belonged to the group of beow 40％(74.1％).
4. The final diagnosis after evaluation were organic personality disorder(45.5％) and dementia(31.8％).
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