Post-traumatic stress disorder among the staff of a mental health hospital: Prevalence and risk factors.
Anthony A OlashoreOluyemi O AkanniKeneilwe MolebatsiJohn A OgunjumoPublished in: The South African journal of psychiatry : SAJP : the journal of the Society of Psychiatrists of South Africa (2018)
Post-traumatic stress disorder could result from stressful events encountered in the course of managing patients in mental health institutes and departments. Pre-placement personality evaluation of health workers to be assigned to work in psychiatric units and post-incident trauma counselling of those exposed to violence may be beneficial in reducing the occurrence of PTSD in mental hospital health care workers.
Keyphrases
- mental health
- mental illness
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- risk assessment
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- prognostic factors
- type diabetes
- adverse drug
- public health
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- hepatitis c virus
- trauma patients
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- human immunodeficiency virus
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