@article{ref1,
title="Relationship between Traumatic Events, Stress Coping Strategies and Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms among Social Workers in Public Sector",
journal="Korean journal of biological psychiatry",
year="2015",
author="Lee, Junghyun-H and Kim, Jiae and Sim, Minyoung and Jeon, Kyoungsun and Oh, Seunga and Yang, Jungll and Lee, Yunglyul",
volume="",
number="",
pages="55-62",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: Social workers can suffer from occupational stress resulting from dealing with clients, which might lead to metal health problems. We aimed to investigate the association of duty-related traumatic experiences and stress coping strategies with posttraumatic stress symptoms among social workers in public sector. <br><br>METHODS: A total of 110 social workers in public sector (men 30.9%, 36.5 +/- 7.6 yrs) participated in this study. All subjects were evaluated the frequency and the impact of duty-related traumatic events. Additionally, they completed questionnaires including the Impact of Event Scale-Revised for post-traumatic stress symptoms, the Beck Depression Inventory-II for depressive symptoms, the Scale for Suicidal Ideation for suicide symptoms and the Ways of Coping Checklist for stress coping strategies. <br><br>RESULTS: The most frequent traumatic events were &quot;Violent or abusive language from a client&quot; (95.0%) and &quot;Client made a fuss&quot; (94.5%). The most distressing traumatic event was &quot;Seeing a dead body on duty&quot; (7.6 out of 10), which predicted post-traumatic stress symptoms (odds ratio 4.04 ; 95% confidence interval, 1.79-9.11). Among 4 types of stress coping strategies, the emotion-focused coping was positively correlated with post-traumatic stress symptoms after controlling age and sex (beta = 0.50, p < 0.001). <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Social workers in public sector showed high level of post-traumatic stress symptoms. Duty-related traumatic events and the emotional-focused coping strategies were associated with the severity of post-traumatic stress symptoms. The modification of stress coping strategies would alleviate post-traumatic stress symptoms in social workers in public sector.<p /><p>Language: ko</p>",
language="ko",
issn="1225-8709",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}