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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12358/27250
TitlePost-Traumatic Stress Disorder Among Health Care Providers Following The Israeli Attacks Against Gaza Strip in 2014: A call for Immediate Policy Actions
Title in ArabicPost-Traumatic Stress Disorder Among Health Care Providers Following The Israeli Attacks Against Gaza Strip in 2014: A call for Immediate Policy Actions
Abstract

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 following Israeli offensives against Gaza Strip in 2014. 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 and worked with victims of the last 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–Revisedwere used in this study. The Impact Event Scale–Revised has three sub-scales; intrusion, avoidance, and hyper-arousal. Results: The results showed that 291 (89.8%) of 324 participants had scores more than 35 (threshold cut-off point) on the Impact Event Scale–Revised. Scores ranged from zero to 80 with a mean of 52.13. Females had higher levels of stress (55.79) than males (51.63) and nurses (54.85) had more stress than physicians (47.38). The most frequent symptoms of trauma subscales was “avoidance” (mean = 20.04), followed by “intrusion” (mean = 17.83), and then “hyper-arousal” (mean = 14.27). Levels of trauma symptoms were not affected by place of living, hospital of work, while level of education had impacted level of trauma. Conclusion: The findings showed that health care providers suffered from severe posttraumatic symptoms after exposure to 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.

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Abu-El-Noor, Nasser I.
Aljeesh, Yousef I.
Radwan, Abdalkarim S.
Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon K.
Qddura, Ibrahim A.
Khadoura, Khalid J.
Alnawajha, Samer Khader
TypeJournal Article
Date2016
LanguageEnglish
Subjects
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
HCP
Gaza Strip
Israeli Attacks
Published inArchives of Psychiatric Nursing
Seriesvolume 32 :No 5
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The institutional repository of the Islamic University of Gaza was established as part of the ROMOR project that has been co-funded with support from the European Commission under the ERASMUS + European programme. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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