Citation

al-Naser F, Everly GS. Int. J. Emerg. Ment. Health 1999; 1(2): 99-101.

Affiliation

Social Development Office, Amiri Diwan, Kuwait. Loyola College in Maryland, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, Chevron Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11227747

Abstract

It has been proven time and again that emergency service personnel experience much more stress than non-emergency workers. This has been a negative factor which affects their social, psychological, and emotional life. The purpose of the present study is to add to the cross-cultural data relating to the prevalence of posttraumatic stress among emergency services personnel, specifically firefighters. A random sample of 108 Kuwaiti firefighters yielded a psychometric prevalence of PTSD of 18.5%. These findings are consistent with data from the United States and from Canada.

Language: en