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Acute stress responses in Chinese soldiers performing various military tasks

BACKGROUND: To examine Chinese soldiers’ acute stress responses, we did this study. METHODS: The soldiers completed the Acute Stress Response Scale (ASRS) when engaged in major tasks, such as earthquake rescue in Wenchuan, Sichuan, and maintaining social stability in Urumchi, Xinjiang. The ASRS has...

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Autores principales: Huang, Peng, Zhang, Tengxiao, Miao, Danmin, Zhu, Xia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4247674/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25435903
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-4458-8-45
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description BACKGROUND: To examine Chinese soldiers’ acute stress responses, we did this study. METHODS: The soldiers completed the Acute Stress Response Scale (ASRS) when engaged in major tasks, such as earthquake rescue in Wenchuan, Sichuan, and maintaining social stability in Urumchi, Xinjiang. The ASRS has good reliability and validity. The study enrolled 1,832 male soldiers. RESULTS: The results showed significant differences among five dimensions and the overall response index when comparing four diverse military tasks. Further analysis found that reduced work efficiency and 24 symptom clusters were significantly positively correlated. CONCLUSIONS: The acute stress response of soldiers performing various tasks was influenced by many factors, including the task characteristics and external factors. In addition, the acute stress response affected their work efficiency.
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spelling pubmed-42476742014-11-30 Acute stress responses in Chinese soldiers performing various military tasks Huang, Peng Zhang, Tengxiao Miao, Danmin Zhu, Xia Int J Ment Health Syst Research BACKGROUND: To examine Chinese soldiers’ acute stress responses, we did this study. METHODS: The soldiers completed the Acute Stress Response Scale (ASRS) when engaged in major tasks, such as earthquake rescue in Wenchuan, Sichuan, and maintaining social stability in Urumchi, Xinjiang. The ASRS has good reliability and validity. The study enrolled 1,832 male soldiers. RESULTS: The results showed significant differences among five dimensions and the overall response index when comparing four diverse military tasks. Further analysis found that reduced work efficiency and 24 symptom clusters were significantly positively correlated. CONCLUSIONS: The acute stress response of soldiers performing various tasks was influenced by many factors, including the task characteristics and external factors. In addition, the acute stress response affected their work efficiency. BioMed Central 2014-11-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4247674/ /pubmed/25435903 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-4458-8-45 Text en © Huang et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4247674/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25435903
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