Department of Emergency Medicine and Prehospital Services, St. Olav's Hospital, Trondheim, Norway; Joint Medical Services, Norwegian Armed Forces, Sessvollmoen, Norway.
Department of Emergency Medicine and Prehospital Services, St. Olav's Hospital, Trondheim, Norway; Department of Research and Development, Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation, Oslo, Norway.
Air Med J. 2022 May-Jun;41(3):292-297. doi: 10.1016/j.amj.2022.02.006. Epub 2022 Mar 14.
Emergency medical personnel are exposed to multiple stressors, including those of psychological etiologies. The aim of this study was to report the prevalence of anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress symptoms in Norwegian medical helicopter personnel and to determine to what degree they report personal growth or deprecation due to exposure to work-related events.
This was a web-based, cross-sectional survey performed among rescue paramedics and physicians staffing helicopter emergency medical services and search and rescue helicopters between May 5, 2021, and July 5, 2021. Questions included demographic data, the traumatic events exposure index, the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7 scale, the Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (Depression), the posttraumatic change scale, and the posttraumatic symptom scale.
Of the 245 eligible participants, 10 declined to take part and 74 failed to answer, producing a response rate of 66% (72 rescue paramedics and 89 physicians). Of the study population, 3.9 % reported manifest posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms, and 1.9% described moderate to severe depression and anxiety. The majority (76%) described posttraumatic emotional growth because of their work experience.
Despite exposure to several traumatic stressors, participants reported a lower prevalence of posttraumatic stress symptoms, depression, and anxiety compared with a Norwegian adult population.
急救医疗人员面临多种压力源，包括心理病因。本研究旨在报告挪威医疗直升机人员焦虑、抑郁和创伤后应激症状的患病率，并确定他们因工作相关事件暴露而报告个人成长或自我贬低的程度。
这是一项于 2021 年 5 月 5 日至 7 月 5 日期间针对从事直升机紧急医疗服务和搜索与救援直升机工作的救援护理人员和医生进行的基于网络的横断面调查。问题包括人口统计学数据、创伤事件暴露指数、广泛性焦虑障碍 7 量表、患者健康问卷 9（抑郁）、创伤后变化量表和创伤后症状量表。
在 245 名符合条件的参与者中，有 10 人拒绝参与，74 人未回答，应答率为 66%（72 名救援护理人员和 89 名医生）。在研究人群中，3.9%报告有明显的创伤后应激障碍症状，1.9%描述有中度至重度抑郁和焦虑。大多数人（76%）表示因工作经历而产生了创伤后情绪成长。
尽管暴露于多种创伤性压力源，但与挪威成年人群相比，参与者报告的创伤后应激症状、抑郁和焦虑患病率较低。
