Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders and Burnout Syndrome among Community Paramedic Staff | ||||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||||
| Article 20, Volume 12, Issue 1, March 2021, Page 340-363 PDF (854.05 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2021.141874 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Doaa Abd El Salam Amin Yacout1; Neama Yousef Mohamed2; Hanan Hosni El Sherbini2 | ||||
| 1Assistant professor, Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Damanhour University, Egypt | ||||
| 2Assistant professor, Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University, Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Community health nursing specialties is continuously changed and updated according to the community needs, ambulance paramedics staff is one of the specialties in community health nursing, and they play a vital role in emergencies even at home, they play a role in advancing home care which reduces the cost in the health care system, they deal with serious conditions such as pandemic situation as in case of COVID-19 pandemic nowadays. So, this group of staff must be studied to understand the occupational problems that might be facing them and help them to deal with it. Aims of the study: the current study aimed to assess the post-traumatic stress disorders among paramedic staff, and to evaluate the burnout syndrome severity among paramedic staff as a community paramedic. Material and Methods: A descriptive exploratory research design was used. Settings: The study was carried out at once out of the seven regions served by the Egyptian Ambulance Organization (EAO) namely Alexandria region which serves three Egyptian governorates (Alexandria, Matrouh and Beheira governorate). Subjects: All paramedic staff working at the chosen settings and meet the inclusion criteria (68) was recruited in the study. Tools: Data was collected through using three tools “Paramedic Staff Health Profile and Sociodemographic Assessment Tool, Maslach Burnout Inventory – Human Services Survey for Medical Personnel (MBI-HSS) Tool and the Clinician administered Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Scale for DSM-5 (CAPS-5) Past Month Version. Results: The current study indicate that the studied paramedic staff has different degree of burnout syndrome and post-traumatic stress disorder with a significant association with multivariable such as age, marital status level of education, years of experiences, working hours per week, sleeping hours and their evaluation for their health condition. Conclusion and Recommendations: it was concluded that, the paramedic staff burnout inventory scale indicate that around one third of them have high emotional exhaustion level, whereas, more than two fifths of them have low level of personal accomplishment. Around one third have high level of depersonalization. Furthermore, three quarters of the studied paramedic have mild, minimal distress or disruption of activities followed by moderate, distress clearly present but still manageable. It was recommended that, regular screening of paramedic staff should be done for evaluating stress, depression, and anxiety. Proper management must be held at early stage of symptoms of BOS and PTSD. Inservice stress management training especially for invoice community paramedic staff must be executive to raise their awareness regarding the possibility of PTSD and BOS and how to deal with. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Post traumatic; paramedic staff; burnout; stressors | ||||
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