Post-traumatic stress disorder among hospital emergency personnel in South-East of Iran
Journal Title: International Research Journal of Applied and Basic Sciences - Year 2013, Vol 4, Issue 6
Abstract
emergency personnel had direct encounter with many events that threat their own wellbeing during their daily work and may cause PTSD. In the Iranian context, there are limited numbers of studies that examine prevalence rate of PTSD among groups of emergency personnel. This study thus was conducted to fulfill this goal among groups in hospitals supervised by Kerman Medical University.Using Mississippi post- stress disorder PTSD prevalence rate of all personnel's (n= 250) examined. Data analysis was done by using Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, chi-square, Independent T-test, Pearson correlation and One-Way ANOVA. personnel had different level of education, marital status, experience of traumatic events, work hours per month, and gender. Most of [94%] hospital emergency personnel reported moderate posttraumatic stress disorder. The study suggests health care managers to organize a very systematic and dynamic policies and procedures in order to assist group to deal with PTSD .there is no conflict of interest.
Authors and Affiliations
Hojat Sheikh Bardsi*| Department of Emergency Medicine,Kerman University of Medical Sciences, mohsen.aminizadeh@gmail.com, amin saberini| Research Officer And emergency medical specialist training ,kerman university of medicine sciences., Mohsen amini zadeh| Research Officer And emergency medical specialist training ,kerman university of medicine sciences., abdollreza sabahi| Psychiatrist neurologist University of Medical Sciences, fatemeh shirazi| Student economic, Kerman University of Medical Sciences
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