Post-traumatic stress disorder among hospital emergency personnel in South-East of Iran

ABSTRACT: emergency personnel had direct encounter with many events that threat their own wellbeing during their daily work and may cause PTSD. In the Iranian context, there are limited numbers of studies that examine prevalence rate of PTSD among groups of emergency personnel. This study thus was conducted to fulfill this goal among groups in hospitals supervised by Kerman Medical University.Using Mississippi post-traumatic stress disorder PTSD prevalence rate of all emergency personnelʹs (n= 250) examined. Data analysis was done by using Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, chi-square, Independent T-test, Pearson correlation and One-Way ANOVA. personnel had different level of education, marital status, experience of traumatic events, work hours per month, and gender. Most of [94%] hospital emergency personnel reported moderate posttraumatic stress disorder. The study suggests health care managers to organize a very systematic and dynamic policies and procedures in order to assist group to deal with PTSD .there is no conflict of interest