Abstract
According to the UN, the victims of the armed conflict in Ukraine were 6,764 people (including civilians), 16,877 people were injured, and the number of temporarily internally displaced persons exceeded 2.3 million. As of January 1, 2020, there are 459,655 participants in hostilities in Ukraine. Due to today’s challenges, non-psychotic mental disorders are a serious problem in general and especially in military psychiatry. 115 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who took a direct part in hostilities in the Anti-Terrorist Operation zone were surveyed. All subjects were divided into two groups. The main group included 60 combatants who had injury and non-psychotic mental disorders, the comparison group included 55 combatants with non-psychotic mental disorders who were not injured. It has been determined that in the structure of non-psychotic mental disorders in the examined patients there was a severe level of depression (at 89.1% and 79.2%) and anxiety (at 95.6% and 94.4%) by the Hamilton Scale, subclinical manifestations of depression (at 56.8% and 49.9%) and clinical manifestations of anxiety (at 69.8% and 66.5%) by a Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. The phenomenological structure of non-psychotic mental disorders in combatants who were injured is represented by the predominance of depressive, anxious, asthenic and psychosomatic syndrome.
Keywords: injuries, non-psychotic mental disorders, combatants, stress.
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