Traumatic Stress Symptomatology among Emergency Medical Technician
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 5
Abstract
Emergency medical technicians (EMTs) are members of a discipline that forms a unique part of the emergency services. As pre-hospital providers they are constantly and increasingly facing with heavy stressors and obstacles that are physically, mentally and emotionally tiring, and placing them at the risk of developing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Aim of the study: to Assess traumatic stress symptomatology among emergency medical technicians. Methodology: Setting: This study was conducted in all of thirty-seven ambulance centers which cover the geographical division of Ismailia Governorate. Subject: All available emergency medical techniciasssssns in previously mentioned sitting, (210) emergency medical technician was included. Tools: Tools of data collection: Four tools were used for data collection: (I) Socio- demographic and Emergency Work Backgrounds Questionnaire, (II) Obstacles Facing EMTs Questionnaire, (III) Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R) that assesses subjective distress caused by traumatic events and (IV) Dispositional Resilience Scale (DRS) that measure the concept of hardiness. Results: it was found that, more than half of studied EMTs had Post- Traumatic Stress Symptoms. Conclusion: The emergency work had a negative impact on psychological health and social relationship of EMTs. Also, The level of post-traumatic stress symptoms among emergency medical workers was moderate. Recommendation: Developing a formal critical incident stress debriefing program within the organization and encourage the maintenance of supportive work environment.
Authors and Affiliations
Rawia Ahmed Abd El-fadeel M. Sc. , Somaya Elsayed Abou-Abdou Ph. D.
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