@article{ref1,
title="Psychological distress and post-traumatic symptoms following occupational accidents",
journal="Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)",
year="2013",
author="Ghisi, Marta and Novara, Caterina and Buodo, Giulia and Kimble, Matthew O. and Scozzari, Simona and Di Natale, Arianna and Sanavio, Ezio and Palomba, Daniela",
volume="3",
number="4",
pages="587-600",
abstract="Depression and post-traumatic stress disorder frequently occur as a consequence of occupational accidents. To date, research has been primarily focused on high-risk workers, such as police officers or firefighters, and has rarely considered individuals whose occupational environment involves the risk of severe, but not necessarily life-threatening, injury. Therefore, the present study was aimed at assessing the psychological consequences of accidents occurring in several occupational settings (e.g., construction and industry). Thirty-eight victims of occupational accidents (injured workers) and 38 gender-, age-, and years of education-matched workers who never experienced a work accident (control group) were recruited. All participants underwent a semi-structured interview administered by a trained psychologist, and then were requested to fill in the questionnaires. Injured workers reported more severe anxious, post-traumatic and depressive symptoms, and poorer coping skills, as compared to controls. In the injured group low levels of resilience predicted post-traumatic symptomatology, whereas the degree of physical injury and the length of time since the accident did not play a predictive role. The results suggest that occupational accidents may result in a disabling psychopathological condition, and that a brief psychological evaluation should be included in the assessment of seriously injured workers.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2076-328X",
doi="10.3390/bs3040587",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs3040587"
}