[Effect of psychological trauma caused by war on manifestations of psoriasis]

Psoriasis has well known characteristics of psychosomatic disease. The goals of this paper were to confirm next facts: 1. Whether has war psychotrauma had influences on number of new cases of psoriasis, and 2. The influence war psychotrauma as provoking factor on new patients suffering from psoriasis. The analysis was done on Dermatologic clinic in Sarajevo and was included only new cases of psoriasis from the 1st January 1992 to the 31th December 1995. This examination was done by inquiry. The inquiry was included two separate group of questions. One group was included so called peace time stress situations, for example: natural death some member of family, own disease or serious disease some member of family, problems with education of children, divorce, marriage and similar questions without direct connection and influence of war situation. The other group of questions were entirely connected with aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina, and war condition, for example: killing or wounding some member of family or close to person, wounding inquiring person, separation from wife and/or children, and/or close to person; and many other situation which were consequences of aggression, like loosing of property or soldiering in army. Female had had the same answers on group of so called peacctime psychotrauma and war psachotrauma. However, male were shown the bigger sensibility on war psychotrauma. Namely, 68.7% of male were insisted on war psychotrauma as trigger moment on appear of psoriasis. Such investigations for studding impact of war psychotrauma as provoking factor of psoriasis in available literature, we haven't discovered.