اضطراب ضغوط ما بعد الصدمة (PTSD)‎ و علاقته ببعض المتغيرات لدى ضحايا الحرب من المعاقين حركيًا في مدينة تعز

Abstract EN

The purpose of this research is to identify the level of post traumatic stress disorder among handicapped victims of war in Taiz city.

It also identifies the differences in this disorder according to some variables (the social situation, degree of handicap, kind of handicap).

The sample of the research consisted of (100) handicapped victims of war, and the researcher used with them the post-traumatic stress disorder scale for Davidson which was translated by Abdu Alazez Thabet.

Then the researcher used suitable statistical methods, and the results indicated that percentage(41%)suffered from high disorder, percentage (36%) suffered from moderate disorder , percentage(14%) suffered from low disorder, and percentage (9%) didn’t appear to have symptoms of the disorder.

The results also indicated that there were no statistically significant differences between respondents on post- traumatic stress disorder scale according to the social situation variable.

Where as in degree of handicap variable(partial, total),there were statistically significant differences for the total handicap, and there were differences in kind of handicap variable(paralysis, amputation, others) and they were for paralysis then for amputation.

In the light of these results, the researcher presented a group of recommendations and suggestions.