The impact of disaster work on community volunteers: The role of peri-traumatic distress,level of personal affectedness,sleep quality and resource loss,on post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and subjective health |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Center for Anxiety Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;2. Arq Psychotrauma Expert Group – Centrum 45, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;3. Department of Psychology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria;4. Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;5. Department of Psychology, Reykjavík University, Reykjavík, Iceland;1. Department of Psychology, Clearview Hall, Binghamton University, 4400 Vestal Parkway East, Vestal, NY 13902, USA;2. Department of Psychology, Weiss Hall, Temple University, 1701 North 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA;3. Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, 1642 East Helen Street, Tuscon, AZ 85719, USA;1. Department of Psychiatry, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, United States;2. Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, P404 Duff Roblin Building, 190 Dysart Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada;3. Departments of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, PsycHealth Centre, PZ433-771 Bannatyne Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3E 3N4, Canada;1. Department of Psychiatry, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA;2. Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center, Charleston, SC, USA;3. Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA;4. McGuire VA Medical Center, Richmond, VA, USA;5. Center for Addictions, Personality, and Emotion Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA |
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| Abstract: | Disaster work has shown to cause PTSD symptoms and subjective health complaints in professional emergency personnel. However, very little is known about how disaster work affects community volunteers.This first time longitudinal study examined factors contributing to post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms (PTSD) and subjective health complaints in volunteers working in an earthquake setting. At six and eighteen months post disaster, a sample of 506 Indonesian Red Cross volunteers were assessed using the Impact of Event Scale-Revised and the Subjective Health Complaints Inventory. Factors analyzed in relation to the outcomes included: peri-traumatic distress, level of personal affectedness by the disaster, sleep quality and loss of resources as a consequence of the disaster.At 18 months post-disaster the findings showed high levels of PTSD symptoms and subjective health complaints. Quality of sleep was related to both outcomes but resource loss only to PTSD symptoms. Neither peri-traumatic distress nor level of affectedness by the disaster (external versus directly affected volunteers), were predictive of symptoms. This study indicates that characteristics of disaster work e.g. low quality of sleep, may be an important contributor to PTSD symptoms and subjective health complaints in volunteers. |
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| Keywords: | Disaster Volunteer PTSD Subjective health Sleep Peri-traumatic distress Loss of resources |
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