Reaction to terror-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)‎ among the students of nursing college University of Baghdad

المؤلف

al-Amiri, Man H. Ibrahim

المصدر

Kufa Journal for Nursing Sciences

العدد

المجلد 5، العدد 3 (31 ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2015)، ص ص. 1-8، 8ص.

الناشر

جامعة الكوفة كلية التمريض

تاريخ النشر

2015-12-31

دولة النشر

العراق

عدد الصفحات

8

التخصصات الرئيسية

التمريض

الملخص EN

Introduction: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a term applied to psychological and emotional disturbance that develops after experiencing, witnessing or being exposed to a traumatic event.

The event may involve actual or threatened death, serious physical injury or threat to physical integrity such as a natural disaster, wartime combat, torture, murder, severe harm to oneself or others, rape, and violent attack or an assault.

Objective: To determine the infliction levels of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among the students in the college of Nursing/ University of Baghdad, and to find out the relationship betweenthese levels and some demographic characteristics.

Methodology: Observational design study of undergraduate nursing students has been achieved from December 4th, 2013 to the May 17th, 2014 in order to identify the Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in all stages in the College of Nursing University of Baghdad.

A non-probability of two hundred students in all four stages of the college of Nursing/ University of Baghdad was recruited.

To meet the study objectives a questionnaire was constructed.

This questionnaire consisted of two parts: firstly, four demographic characteristics: gender, age, stage, and residency; and 17 items represent Davidson Trauma scale-DSM-IV for diagnosing and measuring levels of PTSD within the civilians.

Data were analyzed by applying: descriptive statistical analysis: frequencies and percentages and distribution; and inferential analysis: Correlation Coefficient, Chi-squire, and independent t-test.

Results: The study indicates that the majority of the students (63.0%) has PTSD: low (29.0%), medium (21.5%), and high (12.5%); and only 37.0% of them have no PTSD.

The results indicate that 35.0% of the participants who have different levels of PTSD (63.0%) are female; and 21.5% of those who have PTSD are in age group (≥ 24); for the stages: the first stage shows having more PTSD (18.0%) than the other stages; and finally, 42.0% of those who live in Baghdad have levels of PTSD than those who do not live in Baghdad.

Conclusions: The results of present study indicated that more than half of participated students were at age 22 years and more old; half of them were male students; and the majority live in Baghdad.

The study showed that a high percentage of those students have had PTSD in different levels Recommendations: The present study recommendsthat students are to be advisedto learnsome coping strategies and stress managements by attending training and relaxation sessions.

نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)

al-Amiri, Man H. Ibrahim. 2015. Reaction to terror-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among the students of nursing college University of Baghdad. Kufa Journal for Nursing Sciences،Vol. 5, no. 3, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-655590

نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)

al-Amiri, Man H. Ibrahim. Reaction to terror-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among the students of nursing college University of Baghdad. Kufa Journal for Nursing Sciences Vol. 5, no. 3 (Sep. / Dec. 2015), pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-655590

نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)

al-Amiri, Man H. Ibrahim. Reaction to terror-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among the students of nursing college University of Baghdad. Kufa Journal for Nursing Sciences. 2015. Vol. 5, no. 3, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-655590

نوع البيانات

مقالات

لغة النص

الإنجليزية

الملاحظات

Includes bibliographical references : p. 7-8

رقم السجل

BIM-655590