ملخص الدراسة:

This study aimed to assess the level of posttraumatic stress disorder and to examine the relationship between exposure to war stress and posttraumatic symptoms among health care providers two years following Israeli offensives against Gaza Strip in 2014._x000D__x000D_
Methodology: A cross-sectional design was used for this study. We targeted all nurses and doctors working in three governmental hospitals in the Gaza Strip who worked with victims of the 2014 war, more specifically, those who were working in emergency departments, intensive care units, operating rooms, surgical departments, and burn units. A demographic sheet and Impact Event Scale-Revised were used in this study. The Impact Event Scale-Revised has three sub-scales; intrusion, avoidance, and hyper-arousal._x000D__x000D_
Results: The results showed that 291 (89.3%) out of 2444 participants had scores more than 35 (threshold cut-off point) on Impact Event Scale-Revised. Scores ranged from eight to 80 with a mean of 52.71. Females had higher levels of stress (55.33) than males (50.82) and nurses (52.67) had more stress than physicians (47.38). The most frequent symptoms of trauma subscales was “Intrusion” (mean=19.99), followed by “Avoidance” (mean=17.60), and then “Hyper-arousal” (mean=14.12). Level of trauma symptoms were not affected by place of living, hospital of work, while level of education had impacted level of trauma. _x000D__x000D_
Conclusion: The findings showed that health care providers still suffer from severe posttraumatic symptoms two years after exposure to a prolonged war stress. This level of trauma among health care providers warrants intervention programs to reduce stress and trauma among Gaza health care providers after the war.

توثيق المرجعي (APA)

Abu-El-Noor, Nasser I., Aljeesh, Yousef I., Radwan, Abdalkarim S., Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon K., Qddura, Ibrahim A., Khadoura, Khalid J.,& Alnawajha, Samer K. (2018). Post-traumatic stress disorder among health care providers two years following the Israeli attacks against Gaza Strip in August 2014: Another call for policy intervention. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, volume 32 :No 5, 27268