How to assess: Emotional support -- Traumatic stress in ill or injured children

Extreme flooding in the northern parts of Namibia occurred in 2011, impacting many schoolgoing children in the region. The rationale for the current research is to assess post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on school children as a result of the floods. A self-administered Child Trauma Screening Questionnaire (CTSQ) with closed-ended questions was administered to 480 children between the ages of eight and 18 years at their respective schools. The CTSQ consists of five items assessing re-experiencing and five items assessing hyper-arousal symptoms. The results show that 55.2% of learners aged 12 and below and 72.8% of learners aged 13 and above reported experiencing symptoms of trauma from the floods 2 years after the event. These percentages were quite high and are therefore a cause for concern. Given the magnitude of this problem, it is important for the government and other stakeholders to provide the necessary psychological and/or emotional support in the event of future floods or similar disasters.

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Design and challenges for a randomized, multi-site clinical trial comparing the use of service dogs and emotional support dogs in Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Contemporary Clinical Trials ◽

10.1016/j.cct.2017.08.017 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 62 ◽

pp. 105-113 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Gabrielle H. Saunders ◽

Kousick Biswas ◽

Tracey Serpi ◽

Stephanie McGovern ◽

Shirley Groer ◽

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Keyword(s):

Clinical Trial ◽

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽

Traumatic Stress ◽

Emotional Support ◽

Stress Disorder ◽

Post Traumatic Stress ◽

Service Dogs ◽

Post Traumatic

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Factors That Influence Professional Quality of Life (Pro-QOL) on Clinical Nurses

Jurnal NERS ◽

10.20473/jn.v14i3.17176 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 393

Author(s):

Febrina Secsaria Handini ◽

Fitriyanti Patarru' ◽

Basilius Yosepfus Weu ◽

Heryyanoor Heryyanoor ◽

Sena Wahyu Purwanza

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Traumatic Stress ◽

Emotional Support ◽

Factor Model ◽

Five Factor Model ◽

Professional Quality Of Life ◽

Self Evaluation ◽

Professional Quality ◽

High Workload

Introduction: Nurses are professionals that work by involving cognitive and emotional aspects simultaneously when providing nursing care, which provides both positive and negative experiences. These experiences can affect nurses' professional quality of life (Pro-QOL). Professional quality of life has three dimensions, namely burnout (BO), compassion satisfaction (CS) and Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS). This paper presents a systematic review of the literature that examined factors that influence the professional quality of life on clinical nurses.Methods: Articles are obtained from the Scopus, Science Direct and Emerald databases using keywords Compassion Satisfaction, Burnout, Secondary Traumatic Stress, Nurse. The search identified 69 articles and 15 relevant research articles published between 2014-2019.Results: The results show that the inability of nurses to control the core of self-evaluation and the five-factor model (FFM) of personality traits, high workload, pressure in the work and imbalance between rewards and work, coping nurses and poor emotional support, rejection and giving up behavior can increase the number of those with compassion fatigue.Conclusion: The results show that the inability of nurses to control the core of self-evaluation and the five-factor model (FFM) of personality traits, high workload, pressure in the work and imbalance between rewards and work, coping nurses and poor emotional support, rejection and giving up behavior can increase the number of those with compassion fatigue.

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