Post-traumatic stress symptoms in the general population after a disaster: implications for public health

2009 ◽  
pp. 19-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandro Galea ◽  
Jennifer Ahern ◽  
Heidi Resnick ◽  
David Vlahov ◽  
Beverley Raphael
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
General Population ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Symptoms ◽  
Post Traumatic

scholarly journals The Cognitive Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Members of the General Population in Italy: A Preliminary Study on Executive Inhibition

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 170
Author(s):  
Francesca Favieri ◽  
Giuseppe Forte ◽  
Francesca Agostini ◽  
Jasmine Giovannoli ◽  
Enrico Di Pace ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Stroop Task ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Italian Population ◽  
Cognitive Inhibition ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Psychological Conditions ◽  
Stress Symptoms ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Preliminary Study

The pandemic period which has characterized the last two years has been associated with increasingly worsening psychological conditions, and previous studies have reported severe levels of anxiety, mood disorder, and psychopathological alteration in the general population. In particular, worldwide populations have appeared to present post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS). Surprisingly, no studies have evaluated the effect of COVID-related PTSS on cognitive functioning. This study focused on the association between high levels of PTSS related to COVID-19 and alterations in executive functioning by considering executive inhibitions in populations not infected by the virus. Ninety respondents from the Italian population participated in the study. A higher percentage of PTSS was reported. Moreover, respondents with high post-traumatic symptomatology presented deficits in the inhibition of preponderant responses, demonstrating an executive deficit which could be expressed by a difficulty in controlling goal-directed actions. This was underlined by worse performances in elaborating incongruent stimuli in the Stroop task and no-go stimuli in the Go/No-Go task. This report presents preliminary findings underlining the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on cognitive functions. The results confirmed a persistently higher post-traumatic symptomatology related to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Italian population and highlighted an association with cognitive inhibition impairment.

Post Traumatic Stress Symptoms and Burnout in Doctors and Nurses Suffering Agressions

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Gascon ◽  
J. P. Pereira ◽  
M. J. Cunha ◽  
M. A. Santed ◽  
B. Martinez-Jarreta
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Symptoms ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Doctors And Nurses

Public Health Aspects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Patients Who Have Experienced a Car Accident

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 154
Author(s):  
Beti Zafirova ◽  
Sonja Topuzovska ◽  
Julija Zhivadinovik ◽  
Marija Andonova
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Traffic Accident ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
The Public ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Car Accident

The main aim of this research was to show the public health aspects of the emergence of post-traumatic stress disorder patients (PTSD) following a traffic accident.

scholarly journals Physiological parameters of mental health predict the emergence of post-traumatic stress symptoms in physicians treating COVID-19 patients

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Dolev ◽  
S. Zubedat ◽  
Z. Brand ◽  
B. Bloch ◽  
E. Mader ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Treatment Strategies ◽  
Physiological Measures ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Symptoms ◽  
Post Traumatic

AbstractLack of established knowledge and treatment strategies, and change in work environment, may altogether critically affect the mental health and functioning of physicians treating COVID-19 patients. Thus, we examined whether treating COVID-19 patients affect the physicians’ mental health differently compared with physicians treating non-COVID-19 patients. In this cohort study, an association was blindly computed between physiologically measured anxiety and attention vigilance (collected from 1 May 2014 to 31 May 31 2016) and self-reports of anxiety, mental health aspects, and sleep quality (collected from 20 April to 30 June 2020, and analyzed from 1 July to 1 September 2020), of 91 physicians treating COVID-19 or non-COVID-19 patients. As a priori hypothesized, physicians treating COVID-19 patients showed a relative elevation in both physiological measures of anxiety (95% CI: 2317.69–2453.44 versus 1982.32–2068.46; P < 0.001) and attention vigilance (95% CI: 29.85–34.97 versus 22.84–26.61; P < 0.001), compared with their colleagues treating non-COVID-19 patients. At least 3 months into the pandemic, physicians treating COVID-19 patients reported high anxiety and low quality of sleep. Machine learning showed clustering to the COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 subgroups with a high correlation mainly between physiological and self-reported anxiety, and between physiologically measured anxiety and sleep duration. To conclude, the pattern of attention vigilance, heightened anxiety, and reduced sleep quality findings point the need for mental intervention aimed at those physicians susceptible to develop post-traumatic stress symptoms, owing to the consequences of fighting at the forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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