POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS REACTIONS AMONGST RESCUE WORKERS AFTER A MAJOR RAIL ACCIDENT
Anxiety ResearchPublished 1 October 1991
Henrik Steen Andersen, Anders Korsgaard Christensen, Gorm Odden Petersen
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After a major rail accident the rescue workers were examined by questionnaire at 3 and 7 months postaccident using the General Health Questionnaire-28 (GHQ), Impact of Event Scale (IES) and a structured questionnaire made for the purpose.
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Abstract Rescue tasks under heavy strain may act as traumatic events creating stress reactions among the rescue workers. After a major rail accident the rescue workers were examined by questionnaire at 3 and 7 months postaccident using the General Health Questionnaire-28 (GHQ), Impact of Event Scale (IES) and a structured questionnaire made for the purpose. Eighteen percent of the 77 rescue workers who participated in the study had GHQ-case-score and 10% had IES-case-score at 7 months using the usual GHQ-cut-off (4/5) and a low IES-cut-off (19/20). For the case-scorers there was a tendency towards increased GHQ- and IES-scores from 3 to 7 months. Five (6%) had post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD) of low to moderate severity at 7 months. Key Words: Rescue workerstraumatic rescue tasksstress reactionsPTSD
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