A FORECAST ON THE POST-TRAUMATIC DEVELOPMENT OF HEALTHCARE WORKERS

Year 2019, Issue: 73, 1 - 25, 13.08.2019

Yener Özen

Abstract

Keywords

Trauma, Traumatic Stress

A FORECAST ON THE POST-TRAUMATIC DEVELOPMENT OF HEALTHCARE WORKERS

Abstract

Traumatic events refer cases in which people come across with fear, helplessness, weakness, vulnerability. Along with traumatic events, a person experiences fear and helplessness in the extreme. During a traumatic event, the person may be irresistibly helpless. Some occupational groups are constantly confronted with traumatic events as a result of their work. Health workers, police officers, firefighters, civil defense forces and other some occupational groups encounter traumatic events because of their works. The purpose of this study is to determine the psychological problems experienced by emergency health workers and how they cope with these problems. For this purpose, "Hopelessness Scale, Locus of Control Scale, Problem Solving Inventory, Perceived Social Support Scale, Post-Traumatic Growth Scale, Peritraumatic Dissociative Experiences Questionnaire, Post-Traumatic Stress Diagnostic Scale, Beck Depression Inventory" were used to determine psychological statements. The research was conducted in Erzincan city, which covers the employees of Mengücek Gazi Education-Research Hospital and Emergency Health Services Directorate of Private Neon Hospital. The sample was selected among the teams serving in the ambulances from the Emergency Health Services Branch Directorate. The scales sent to the stations were applied to a total of 400 emergency health workers.

Keywords

Trauma, Traumatic Stress, Post-Traumatic Growth

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