Researches in the field of psychiatric disorders epidemilogy have shown that difference in the psychiatric morbidity between males and females exists within the categories of non-psychotic disorders. Findings of numerous researches regarding use of the various forms of community mental health services indicated that females are more present in the out-patient and in-patient community mental health treatment, as well as their higher number in community mental health treatment. Research which has been done in 2002 at the Department for Clinical Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Disorders at the Psychiatric Clinic in Sarajevo, which has been focused on years 1990, 1993, 2000 has, for peacefull 1990, shown identical results comparing with the findings of similar studies which have been conducted in USA and Wester Europe countries. War and psychotraumatization caused by war, especially for the male population, led to changes in psychiatric morbidity structure, as well as in the structure of services which were realized by male and female patients. War effects in all examined parameters, especially on male patients, are visible continiously including even the last examined year, 2002, that is the seventh post-war year.
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