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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Among Health Care Providers Following the Israeli Attacks Against Gaza Strip in 2014: A Call for Immediate Policy Actions
PURPOSE: This study aimed to assess the level of posttraumatic stress disorder and to examine the relationship between exposure to war stress and posttraumatic symptoms among health care providers following Israeli offensives against Gaza Strip in 2014. METHODOLOGY: A cross-sectional design was used...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7135666/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26992869 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apnu.2015.08.010 |
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author | Abu-El-Noor, Nasser Ibrahim Aljeesh, Yousef Ibrahim Radwan, AbdalKarim Said Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon Khalil Qddura, Ibrahim Abdel-Ilhady Khadoura, Khalid Jamal Alnawajha, Samer Khader |
author_facet | Abu-El-Noor, Nasser Ibrahim Aljeesh, Yousef Ibrahim Radwan, AbdalKarim Said Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon Khalil Qddura, Ibrahim Abdel-Ilhady Khadoura, Khalid Jamal Alnawajha, Samer Khader |
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description | PURPOSE: This study aimed to assess the level of posttraumatic stress disorder and to examine the relationship between exposure to war stress and posttraumatic symptoms among health care providers following Israeli offensives against Gaza Strip in 2014. METHODOLOGY: A cross-sectional design was used for this study. We targeted all nurses and doctors working in three governmental hospitals in the Gaza Strip and worked with victims of the last war, more specifically, those who were working in emergency departments, intensive care units, operating rooms, surgical departments, and burn units. A demographic sheet and Impact Event Scale–Revised were used in this study. The Impact Event Scale–Revised has three sub-scales; intrusion, avoidance, and hyper-arousal. RESULTS: The results showed that 291 (89.8%) of 324 participants had scores more than 35 (threshold cut-off point) on the Impact Event Scale–Revised. Scores ranged from zero to 80 with a mean of 52.13. Females had higher levels of stress (55.79) than males (51.63) and nurses (54.85) had more stress than physicians (47.38). The most frequent symptoms of trauma subscales was “avoidance” (mean = 20.04), followed by “intrusion” (mean = 17.83), and then “hyper-arousal” (mean = 14.27). Levels of trauma symptoms were not affected by place of living, hospital of work, while level of education had impacted level of trauma. CONCLUSION: The findings showed that health care providers suffered from severe posttraumatic symptoms after exposure to prolonged war stress. This level of trauma among health care providers warrants intervention programs to reduce stress and trauma among Gaza health care providers after the war. |
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spelling | pubmed-71356662020-04-08 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Among Health Care Providers Following the Israeli Attacks Against Gaza Strip in 2014: A Call for Immediate Policy Actions Abu-El-Noor, Nasser Ibrahim Aljeesh, Yousef Ibrahim Radwan, AbdalKarim Said Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon Khalil Qddura, Ibrahim Abdel-Ilhady Khadoura, Khalid Jamal Alnawajha, Samer Khader Arch Psychiatr Nurs Article PURPOSE: This study aimed to assess the level of posttraumatic stress disorder and to examine the relationship between exposure to war stress and posttraumatic symptoms among health care providers following Israeli offensives against Gaza Strip in 2014. METHODOLOGY: A cross-sectional design was used for this study. We targeted all nurses and doctors working in three governmental hospitals in the Gaza Strip and worked with victims of the last war, more specifically, those who were working in emergency departments, intensive care units, operating rooms, surgical departments, and burn units. A demographic sheet and Impact Event Scale–Revised were used in this study. The Impact Event Scale–Revised has three sub-scales; intrusion, avoidance, and hyper-arousal. RESULTS: The results showed that 291 (89.8%) of 324 participants had scores more than 35 (threshold cut-off point) on the Impact Event Scale–Revised. Scores ranged from zero to 80 with a mean of 52.13. Females had higher levels of stress (55.79) than males (51.63) and nurses (54.85) had more stress than physicians (47.38). The most frequent symptoms of trauma subscales was “avoidance” (mean = 20.04), followed by “intrusion” (mean = 17.83), and then “hyper-arousal” (mean = 14.27). Levels of trauma symptoms were not affected by place of living, hospital of work, while level of education had impacted level of trauma. CONCLUSION: The findings showed that health care providers suffered from severe posttraumatic symptoms after exposure to prolonged war stress. This level of trauma among health care providers warrants intervention programs to reduce stress and trauma among Gaza health care providers after the war. Elsevier Inc. 2016-04 2020-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7135666/ /pubmed/26992869 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apnu.2015.08.010 Text en Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Abu-El-Noor, Nasser Ibrahim Aljeesh, Yousef Ibrahim Radwan, AbdalKarim Said Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon Khalil Qddura, Ibrahim Abdel-Ilhady Khadoura, Khalid Jamal Alnawajha, Samer Khader Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Among Health Care Providers Following the Israeli Attacks Against Gaza Strip in 2014: A Call for Immediate Policy Actions |
title | Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Among Health Care Providers Following the Israeli Attacks Against Gaza Strip in 2014: A Call for Immediate Policy Actions |
title_full | Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Among Health Care Providers Following the Israeli Attacks Against Gaza Strip in 2014: A Call for Immediate Policy Actions |
title_fullStr | Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Among Health Care Providers Following the Israeli Attacks Against Gaza Strip in 2014: A Call for Immediate Policy Actions |
title_full_unstemmed | Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Among Health Care Providers Following the Israeli Attacks Against Gaza Strip in 2014: A Call for Immediate Policy Actions |
title_short | Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Among Health Care Providers Following the Israeli Attacks Against Gaza Strip in 2014: A Call for Immediate Policy Actions |
title_sort | post-traumatic stress disorder among health care providers following the israeli attacks against gaza strip in 2014: a call for immediate policy actions |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7135666/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26992869 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apnu.2015.08.010 |
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