Posttraumatic stress disorder among limbs injured, hospitalized workers
Date Issued
2005
Date
2005
Author(s)
Lin, Ching-Hua
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
Background: It has been known that while planning rehabilitation and treatment services for work-related injured workers, it is important to consider physical, social and personal factors. Consequently, psychiatric problems, especially post- traumatic stress disorder(PTSD), might play important roles for injured workers in return to work.
Objective: To investigate the prevalence of PTSD and other psychiatric diseases among limbs injured workers.
Methods: 47 limbs injured workers admitted in the Orthopedic ward of a teaching hospital in Taipei were recruited during July 2004 to February 2005. We interviewed those subjects within seven days after the injuries happened. Inform consents were signed. Basic information was collected using a questionnaire combined with the Chinese version of PTSD subschedule of the Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview(M.I.N.I.) and the Brief Symptom Rating Scale-5(BSRS-5) to explore the prevalence of PTSD and psychiatric comorbidities. 27 subjects were interviewed again one month after the injuries happened.
Results: Immediately after injuries, only two subjects fulfilled the full criteria of PTSD defined by the M.I.N.I., similar to the prevalence among general population, and 43% of the subjects got BSRS-5 scores equal to or greater than 6, which indicated that those subjects might have some kinds of psychiatric diseases and was estimated to be higher than that of previous studies. The condition still existed one month after injuries. Besides, the subsyndromal PTSD was much more prevalent among those subjects one month after injuries than immediately after injuries(41% vs. 19%), which was significantly different proved using McNemar’s test (p=0.01).
Conclusion: This primitive study suggested that psychiatric co-morbidities and subsyndromal PTSD might be important issues in treating limbs injured workers.
Subjects
受傷勞工
創傷後壓力障礙
精神疾病
injured worker
posttraumatic stress disordes
psychiatric comorbidity
Type
thesis
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