26 Table 9. Diagoses given to war veterans. (n=53) Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD) Mixed Emotional Disorder Depressive Disorder Anxiety Disorder 32 36 11 5 As can be seen, PTSD was a very common diagnosis, but no more likely than a Mixed Emotional Disorder. Depression was twice as common as Anxiety, which is similar to other studies in Zimbabwe (3-4). Table 10 below indicates the relationship between tobacco and alcohol use and various of the clinical measures. These measures were included because many studies have indicated substance and alcohol abuse amongst veterans. Table 10. Correlations between tobacco and alcohol use by war veterans. (n=53) Smoking ** Alcohol ** Impactor * * -0.97 * p=0.05 * Witness -0.33 Physcore CAPSfre -0.29 -0.27 -0.25 ** p=0.01 *** p=0.001 As can be seen, there were negative relationships between reported smoking and drinking, which suggests that these behaviours are negatively affected by an experience of organised violence. This is a somewhat paradoxical finding, which clearly deserves further study.

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