Introduction The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has a great impact on health care workers (HCWs) who are exposed to high levels of stress and trauma leading negative mental outcomes, including stress-related symptoms depressive symptoms. Objectives aim this study was investigate the prevalence symptoms, anxiety post traumatic related COVID 19 pandemic in Cyprus. Methods In cross-sectional ...

Patient violence against staff members in forensic psychiatric institutions is highly prevalent. To date, little known about individual characteristics that increase the likelihood of being victimized. Therefore, current cross-sectional study was designed to investigate extent which members' Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms and Big Five personality traits are linked perceived pati...

Traumatic amputations are important causes of acute stress disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. In this study, we aimed to find out the occurrence rate of symptoms of acute and post-traumatic stress disorder after traumatic amputations and according to this, to assess the psychiatric status of the patients in the postoperative period. Twenty-two patients with traumatic limb amputation w...

Despite high rates of trauma in individuals with psychotic symptoms, post-traumatic stress symptoms are frequently overlooked in clinical practice. There is also reluctance to treat post-traumatic symptoms in case the therapeutic procedure of reprocessing the trauma exacerbates psychotic symptoms. Recent evidence demonstrates that it is safe to use reprocessing strategies in this population. Ho...

following exposure to a major traumatic event like iran-iraq war(1980-1988) various reaction occurs, some of which result in stress-related psychiatric disorder. we have briefly described one such case and used it to indicate some features of post-traumatic stress disorder. the patient, b.b, is a 54 years old man who has served in iran-iraq war operations for about 19 months. he expresses that ...