Trauma exposure, posttraumatic stress disorder and the effect of explanatory variables in paramedic trainees

Trauma exposure, posttraumatic stress disorder and the effect of explanatory variables in paramedic trainees

BACKGROUND Emergency healthcare workers, including trainees and individuals in related occupations are at heightened risk of developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression owing to work-related stressors.We aimed to investigate the type, frequency, and severity of direct trauma exposure, posttraumatic stress symptoms and other psychopathology amongst paramedic trainees. In order...

Editorial: Trauma, Psychosis and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Does virtual trauma cause posttraumatic stress disorder?

Asbestos exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder.

In 48 cases of claims of psychic injury due to exposure to asbestos, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was alleged as a basis for damages in nine (19%). PTSD as currently defined refers to a specific syndrome following exposure to a life-threatening traumatic event, one outside the general range of people's experiences such as military combat, floods, earthquakes, bombing, torture, death cam...

Posttraumatic stress disorder and the nature of trauma

The role of psychological trauma (eg, rape, physical assaults, torture, motor vehicle accidents) as an etiological factor in mental disorders, anticipated as early as the 19th century by Janet, Freud, and Breuer, and more specifically during World War I and II by Kardiner, was "rediscovered" some 20 years ago in the wake of the psychological traumas inflicted by the Vietnam war and the discussi...