Psychotherapy and psychosomatics
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Psychother Psychosom · Mar 1999
Clinical TrialRelationship of cosmetic disfigurement to the severity of posttraumatic stress disorder in burn injury or digital amputation.
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships of physical factors including physical functioning and cosmesis to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in patients with burn injury and in patients with digital amputation. ⋯ These findings suggest that, in female victims with burn injury and/or digital amputation, the degree of cosmetic disfigurement is related to the manifestation of PTSD symptoms of avoidance and emotional numbing.