@article{ref1,
title="Post-traumatic stress reactions amongst rescue workers after a major rail accident",
journal="Anxiety research",
year="1991",
author="Andersen, Henrik Steen and Christensen, Anders   Korsgaard and Petersen, Gorm   Odden",
volume="4",
number="3",
pages="245-251",
abstract="Abstract Rescue tasks under heavy strain may act as traumatic events creating stress reactions among the rescue workers. After a major rail accident the rescue workers were examined by questionnaire at 3 and 7 months postaccident using the General Health Questionnaire-28 (GHQ), Impact of Event Scale (IES) and a structured questionnaire made for the purpose. Eighteen percent of the 77 rescue workers who participated in the study had GHQ-case-score and 10% had IES-case-score at 7 months using the usual GHQ-cut-off (4/5) and a low IES-cut-off (19/20). For the case-scorers there was a tendency towards increased GHQ- and IES-scores from 3 to 7 months. Five (6%) had post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD) of low to moderate severity at 7 months.<p />",
language="",
issn="0891-7779",
doi="10.1080/08917779108248778",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08917779108248778"
}