응급구조사의 이차 외상성 스트레스 정도와 관련 요인

Abstract

Purpose : This study was to exarnine the secondary traumatic stress(STS) and related factors of emergency medical technicians Methods : This study was conducted among 190 emergency medical technicians. over the age of 25. with the 1st or 2nd grade qualification, who serve at fire s ta tions in U and P city of Korea The collected da ta for this study was analyzed using SPSS 12.0 Result : The average character type of A-type personality technicians was 43.25 points and the average of B- type personality technicians was 37.82 points . It suggested that the former was higher than the latter State anxiety did not show stat istically signi ficant difference between A-Type group and B-Type group with the score of 48.51 for A-Type and 47.91 for B-Tyrpe. Physical symptoms showed statistically significant difference between the two groups with the higher score of 28.45 for A-type group than that of 28.13 for B-Type group The level of STS related to the volunteers job character istics was found to be low when the volunteers were satisfied with their job and didn't want to transfer to another division Those on duty who had slept more than seven hours that day had the highest points. The number of points was highest when the frequency for t he onset of trauma was between 20~30 tlmes Furt hermore it was found that for most technicians, 71. 05%, t he period of symptoms lasted for a few weeks at most, and this was where the STS was the lowest. whereas on the other hand the highest STS occurred when the symptoms lasted for a period of up to SlX months The findings showed significant correlations with a relation of r=. 24 between STS and level of anxiety and r= .45 between STS and physical symptoms. However. no significant correlation was found between the level of anxiety and physical symptoms. Conclusion : The more emergency medical technicians are exposed to accidents, the more serious the STS are. Those with an A- type personality are especially prone to have higher STS The higher the STS level is ‘ the higher the level of physical states and anxiety is.