19 RESULTS A total of 175 war veterans were screened from July through to September 1995, but complete assessments were available for only 53 of this sample. There were a variety of reasons for assessments being incomplete, the major one being that the veterans who completed the compensation process were unwilling to return for interviews that were not felt to be useful. The breakdown of the sample is given below in Table 1. Table 1. Sample according to stage of assessment. (n=175) SRQ-20 only Incomplete assessment Complete assessment 19(10.8%) 103(58.9%) 53(30.3%) The data reported are thus only of the group for whom complete assessments were done. Experience of organised violence The experience of violence is taken from the structured interview, and summarised the data obtained form the History of Violence form. Table 2 over shows the types of torture reported by the war veterans, and includes physical torture, deprivation, and psychological torture. As can be seen, psychological torture, in the form of abuse and threats, and beatings figure strongly as the most frequent forms of torture, but other kinds of torture are also found. This is similar to the findings the community study (5-6).

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