School of Social Work, Ariel University center of Samaria, Israel.
Psychiatry Res. 2011 Oct 30;189(3):392-5. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2011.02.004. Epub 2011 Feb 26.
Studies of mental health among hospital personnel during armed conflict are scarce and usually include single time point investigations without a comparison group. The authors compared the psychiatric symptoms and psychosocial functioning of exposed and unexposed hospital personnel at two time points. The research was conducted during 2009 and included a survey of two random samples of hospital personnel (physicians and nurses), one collected during the Gaza War and the other 6 months later. Each sample included hospital personnel who were exposed to war-related stress and others who were not (Study 1: n=67 and 74 for exposed and unexposed, respectively; Study 2: n=57 and 50 for exposed and unexposed, respectively). Levels of psychiatric symptoms and psychosocial functioning were measured. Compared to unexposed hospital personnel, exposed hospital personnel had a significantly higher level of post-traumatic symptoms during the Gaza War and 6 months later. In addition, during the Gaza War, exposed hospital personnel had a significantly higher level of depressive symptoms. However, in the second study, depressive symptoms were similar to those found in the unexposed group. These findings may suggest that war-related stress is associated with post-traumatic symptoms among hospital personnel even 6 months after exposure.
在武装冲突期间对医院人员的心理健康进行的研究很少，并且通常包括没有对照组的单一时间点调查。作者在两个时间点比较了暴露和未暴露的医院人员的精神症状和社会心理功能。该研究于 2009 年进行，包括对医院人员（医生和护士）的两个随机样本的调查，一个是在加沙战争期间收集的，另一个是在 6 个月后收集的。每个样本都包括接触与战争相关压力的医院人员和未接触的人员（研究 1：暴露和未暴露的分别为 67 和 74 人；研究 2：暴露和未暴露的分别为 57 和 50 人）。测量了精神症状和社会心理功能的水平。与未暴露的医院人员相比，在加沙战争期间和 6 个月后，暴露的医院人员的创伤后症状明显更高。此外，在加沙战争期间，暴露的医院人员的抑郁症状明显更高。然而，在第二项研究中，抑郁症状与未暴露组相似。这些发现可能表明，即使在接触后 6 个月，与战争相关的压力仍与医院人员的创伤后症状相关。
